In light of all the evidence proving evolution, to be a faithful Catholic does one have to believe that there was an original couple called Adam and Eve?
It is prohibited to believe that there were multiple first parents, many sets of Adams and Eves. This position is called polygenism. It is a teaching of the Catholic Church that there was one set of parents, and it was they who committed an offense against God, and that offense has had lasting effects for mankind. This is the doctrine of original sin, the sin that occurred at the origin of the human race. C.S. Lewis argued that the existence of original sin is perhaps one of the most obvious facts of human life, even to non-believers. Those who hold that there were multiple sets of first parents go against the teaching of the magisterium on the doctrine of original sin. In fact, there are even logical difficulties in accounting for original sin if that calamitous falling can’t be traced to a single man, Adam. In an encyclical issued in 1950 Pope Pius XII stated, “When there is a question of another conjectural opinion, namely, of polygenism so-called, then the sons of the Church in no
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