I’m not Catholic either but he also said there would be no big bang without God.
His message about God seems to be subservient to his notion that evolution is credible.
Clearly, the message of the Bible is that God is Creator.
I don’t understand why this is big news.
1. A priest first posited the idea of the Big Bang.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre
2. It is my understanding that Catholics have a less literal understanding of the early books of the Bible. I, myself, view the first chapter of the bible as an explanation of the “rat race” of technology vs. simpler, pre-technological times - that for the last 16,000 years or so, technology and complexity, “the tree of knowledge” (starting with the division of labor) has brought us more problems, which required more technology to solve them, which brought us more problems...