They have a reasonable attitude towards evolution, and they encourage priests to be scientists. They even operate a working astronomical observatory. Even their opposition to stem-cell research has not denied the science, just its application.

I've always opposed the Catholic church on a variety of issues, but I've never seen them to be anti-science, at least not since Galileo's day. Even back then, Galileo was suppressed not because of his science, but because he challenged church authority by publishing in Italian. As long as the heliocentric theory remained solely an object of discussion among Latin-reading philosophers, it wasn't seen as implied support of Protestant heresy.