If by "Catholic Church" you means USCCB (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops), for decades they've had Christian welfare-socialists directing their public policy advocacy. One "good" thing Obama has done is that he's burned them badly, not just with Obamacare, but with a number of other aggressive moves to establish state regulatory control/monopoly of every form of human services. Of course, this was inevitable where govt $$ is involved, but a lot of the USCCB didn't catch on to that ---- until recently.
So now the USCCB's kingpin public policy advisor, John Carr, has retired, and he's been replaced by Jonathan Reyes: a Christendom College guy, a Chaput protege and -- well, not quite a Paul Ryan maybe --- but a conservative.
Unlike the Carr crew, he doesn't have a "Preferential Option for Big Government." And his crew is taking over from Carr's crew starting last week.
This is worth keeping an eye on, a sign of hope.
Interesting, thanks.