Unfortunately, as Catholics "Southern Americans of today" will be expected to believe in and defend both evolution and the documentary hypothesis (which are taught in all modern imprimatured Catholic bibles).
I applaud you for sticking up for Southerners when the rest of your co-religionists consider them lower than dirt, but all those "Southern Americans" are going to get burned . . . badly.
Don't look for peace in Catholicism, folks. It's chaos in there. The Truth is found elsewhere.
“Don’t look for peace in Catholicism, folks. It’s chaos in there. The Truth is found elsewhere.”
The reality is that, there is going to be “ups and downs” in the Christian faith community regardless of whatever church one belongs to. That is the normal process of life itself.