No I am NOT making a 'broad' generalization.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/09/11/Catholic-Bishops-Present-Aggressive-Pro-Amnesty-Campaign-From-Pulpit
You definitively equated Bush and the Catholic Church.
Sorry to break this to you, but councils of Bishops are not the Catholic Church, either.
I routinely have ignored all but the official edicts of the Vatican, when the judgment is entirely political.
And then there's this, as an example :