If 78 million (or however many there were at the time) American Catholics had voted their theology forty years ago, our society wouldn't be in this mess today. This is not flame bait, just a statement of fact.
The hold the Democrat party continues to maintain on various groups despite its utter moral bankruptcy is nothing short of "satanic." American Catholics should have been a sure and study bulwark against all that has happened in recent decades, but loyalty to the Democrat party has turned that segment of the population into a mere phantom.
Many, many liberal Catholics went into parish and diocesan work, and even into the religious orders. Feminist, gays, and modernists whose sincerely believe that the essence of Christianity is doing social work. Schools and colleges, hospitals and charity are now literally in heir hands. They have marginalized the authority of the bishop. Only now are some bishop trying to take some of that back. It is a lot like happened with the Reformation, where trimmers finally began to be weeded out only after Trent. What we need now is some shock troops like the Jesuits were in those first generations, and bishops willing to endure the hatred of “progressives” denied the power in the Church which is their life’s blood.