Evolution: Vatican back to creationism?

Pope Benedict XVI is to openly support the creationist so-called "intelligent design theory"? This is what we understand from several news. One is reported by the italian agency ANSA

This step back toward the Middle-Age is also supported by the news that Father George Coyne has been removed from the position of director of the Vatican Observatory (Daily Mail).

Father Coyne is an appreciated astronomer who support, like many other catholic scientists, the Darwin's explanation of evolution.

As I visit a church or any other religious place with the due respect, I would expect the same respect, for our work in the field of science, by the religious authorities. Science deal with facts. Evolution is a fact. Just left the more or less disguised creationism to its place, outside the scientific curriculum.