Much has been written about the history of the Catholic Church and the Nazis, too much to boil down into a sentence or two, but nothing suggests that there was much love between Hitler and the Catholic Church. According to Erik R. Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, during the time period circa 1933, when the NSDAP was trying to take power, while there was some support for Hitler among Lutherans, National Socialism was not popular among Catholics.
The Bohemian Background of German National Socialism: The D.A.P., D.N.S.A.P. and N.S.D.A.P., Erik R. Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 9, No. 3. (Jun., 1948), pp. 339-371.
The Nazi confiscation of the property of hundreds of Catholic monasteries strongly suggests that Hitler did not respect the Catholic church. Indeed, he is on record as saying that he would try to reduce the temporal power of the Church once the war was over. The Nazi Dissolution of the Monasteries: A Case-Study, E. D. R. Harrison, The English Historical Review, Vol. 109, No. 431. (Apr., 1994), pp. 323-355.
The Austrian farmers were very pro-Nazi though. One would have thought they were Catholic. Of course, the populism of the Nazis would have appealed to the farmers. Not all Austrians were submarine captains.