You don't really need a superficial reason to hate other humans, if your heart so desire.
Dunno. Probably knows that the church is sliding into irrelevance if it stick to its old ways.
This is the organization that to this day stays opposed to reason, advancement of science that meddles into research and politics and tells other people what they must think and do because of what they believe without evidence and that has done the biggest damage to progress of civilization and horrible destruction of ancient civilizations and their achievements, now comes to us with an ingratiating smile, because it had to give up so much power, and says how it stands for progress. But we should not forget how it behaved when it really did think it had god on its side.
What the pope said last week isn't a new position - the Catholic church and evolution have never been in conflict. There was no position for a long time while Catholic scientists worked on evolution, but it was formally accepted in 1950, which in terms of the Catholic church moving on an issue is pretty quick.
If you really care to find out what Catholic church says about evolution take a look here:
http://conservation.catholic.org/magisterium_is_concerned_wi...
After all we do the same on small scale every time we bake.
Most historians are of the opinion that Jesus DID exist (though, obviously not that he was the son of God).