As is often said, the Catholic Church is more than the bishops. :-Þ
True, but the bishops are the "successors of the apostles" and are supposed to teach an "unchanging" religion.
There are plenty of Protestant ministers who are highly visible in the conservative movement. So far as I know, all prominent Catholic conservatives are laypeople. The Catholic clergy simply does not do its job. And with Eastern Orthodoxy (which is as ethnic and insular as Judaism), there aren't even any laypeople in conservative leadership.
At any rate, your remark about the Catholic Church being "the only thing standing up to Hollywood" betrays either dishonesty or an abysmal ignorance of American Fundamentalist Protestantism.