Although many in the Church disagreed with him on the prudential decision to go to war in Iraq, he has had warm relations with much of the hierarchy literally from his first week in office. His first official guest for dinner at the White House was the then-Archbishop of Washington, Theodore Cardinal McCarrick. They worked together to put together a ground-breaking voucher program for the public school children of Washington, DC.
Although the initiation of the war strained these warm relations, they did not break them. As well, though the Church and the president parted ways for a while on Iraq, now they're on the same page. The prudential judgment of the top of the Church hierarchy now believes that it is incumbent on the United States to stay in Iraq until the United States has successfully helped the Iraqi people restore order, put down the terrorists, and create at least a rudimentary democratic state.
That there are individual priests who will take after the president is certainly true. We had one in my parish, and his over-the-top comments in his homilies nearly drove me to register in another Catholic parish nearby.
Nonetheless, I don't think that these priests were quite as abusive as his own Methodist minister here in Washington, DC. The reports that I've read say that the minister of his former church in Washington would personally excoriate him from the pulpit while the president sat in the pew.
If he was received into full communion with the Catholic Church, he might view the [at times, poor] treatment he got from the Catholics as a respite from what he's received from his own Methodists.
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Well, you are apparently privy to reports that I have not seen.