Well put. And the Church is not going to war with the US government. It has long had the opportunity to do so (e.g. Kennedy, Pelosi, et al) and didn’t. It will continue to gripe and complain and do nothing substantial. Mainly because it knows it will lose 50%+ of its US church membership if it really presses the issues raised by the Gospels.
yeah but FOCA is a big deal
As Raymond Arroya said, if he Democratic Party were to turn pro-life, they could rule forever. The bishops and many Catholics are on board with most of the Democratic agenda, and they hate to turn against a party when so many of them came from Democratic households. Archbishop Chaput was one. It is going to take some courage; the Church might be shunned by the powers that be as the Mormons are.