The Catholic Church has never cared for democracies or republics. The Church was all for the ‘divine right of kings’ for over a millennium so don’t look to it for a natural ally in the fight for freedom.
That’s simply incorrect, friend. The divine right of kings emerged out of the Protestant reformation and the rise of the nation state. It was mainly advanced in England to hold that the King was supreme over all earthly authority, including the Church. That rights came from the king and not God. Prior to this distortion of the biblical exhortation to obey lawful authority, the Church held that a King was subject that the laws of God to rule wisely and justly.