I don’t know where you live, but here in our OKC area diocese, we received scads of articles in our Catholic newspaper for months on end and a pamphlet called “A Voter’s Guide for the Serious Catholic” plus repeated references in homilies during mass, all of which were carefully non-partisan but explicitly pro-life. A normal adult practicing Catholic here would have had a very hard tome claiming ignorance of the issues.
I am in San Diego, CA. Maybe you have a stronger bishop.
Here in north Jersey our material was pro-life, anti-ObamaCare, but still included the social justice BS - just ambiguous enough so a “Catholic” could claim the moral high ground by voting for Obama.
Obama won a lot of “Catholic” votes in NJ.