Actually, the Catholic Church was pretty conservative and anti-Communist until Pope John XXXIII screwed up everything for it. He was the beginning of the end.
That’s true. But when the Church in the U.S. was officially anti-Communist, so was the Democratic Party (though, like the Church, riddled with Reds).
And when the Democratic Party in the U.S. became Communist, so did the bureaucracy of most dioceses. The apparatchiks of the bishops’ conference and most dioceses campaigned tirelessly in support of Communists throughout Central and South America and every propaganda initiative of the Soviet Union.
If the most Catholic U.S. President in our history (Reagan) had paid any attention to the recommendations of the Catholic bishops, the Soviet Union would still exist, and we might not.
When a local Catholic woman documented the numerous Kerry (i.e., baby-killer) bumper stickers in the employees’ parking lot of the USCCB, the bishops took decisive action. They posted a guard at the gate of the parking lot.
But in the US the Catholic church has historically been solidly in the corner of whatever rat is running. Only Reagan was able to break through that barrier.