We generally skim over such texts and treat them as metaphors as often as passages about the cosmic Christ appear. Sometimes people take them as simply true: Christ rules the cosmos. My counterargument is that these ancient cosmic christologies were skillful means to communicate thee gospel mystery in their times, but serve ill for our time. So I am attracted by Stephen Jay Gould's tow magistera, where neither can invade the space of the other, but the excesses of both can be eliminated. The paradigm shift, as you mention, is indeed immense, since the churches tend to accept not only the heart of the gospel message but the cultural skin which encloses it in now archaic categories. 
Evolution should not be a problem for RC people. In grammar school I was taught the seven days were geological epochs. Teilhard does cause me some worry> He thought Chinese were genetically inferior and did see his work as a synthesis of theology and science. (John Barrow has an alternate Omega pt).