If you think you have a read on what the “Catholic leadership’s political goals” are, feel free to state them here, with documentation.
I feel free to post what I find reasonable, something that is unreasonable is 150 years of Catholics supporting the left, and someone thinking that Rome couldn’t put a stop to that within a few short years, at anytime, just as they could end their never ending support for immigration, which makes democrat politics in America inevitable.
The first thing, would be to stop maintaining the image of being the church of the democrat party leaders, from big city Mayors on up.