I know I will offend many, but, actions speak much louder than words, and my own belief on this is that Ratzinger, many RC Cardinals and the majority of American Roman Catholic Bishops “speak with forked tongue” ON THIS ISSUE (socialism), as Native American’s used to say, when the Europeans said one thing and then supported something else.
I haven’t found one set of statements by American RC officials where they find anything offensive about Obamacare other than “right to life” issues and mandates that could make RC institutions become legally obligated to take actions against their moral principles. But, there is a ton of massive socialist encroachment into the fabric of our lives in Obamacare, accompanied by, and to be enforced by massive expansion of federal authorities, and on THOSE things the RC is silent. And that is the same RC that invited BHO to Notre Dame. The shoe fits.
You’re right that too many bishops don’t brush up on and/or don’t care what their own Church teaches, but it isn’t just on the issue of socialism.