The Catholic vote has been Democrat, yes, and now it is less Democrat than ever. The trend is good for American Catholics, their votes in late 2000’s notwithstanding. The association of Catholics with working class ethnics, and the association of working class with the Democrats are both things rapidly fading away.
I agree that the Catholic Church needs better leadership.
The point remains that liberalism is a product of the Reformation. America of the Founding Fathers, most Protestant of all nations in late 18c., was also most liberal of all Europe of that time, excluding only the Jacobine France, that only survived for a couple of decades anyway.
The war on Catholicism that some Protestants want to fight has been raging in Europe for over two centuries. The result was secularization of France and later all Europe, two world wars, the Cold War, and hundreds of millions killed by various forms of the murderous secular Left, mostly in Europe. To think that the Catholics gave you the left wing is, forgive my bluntness, ignorant of history.
Obama getting 54% of their vote isn't so different from past elections. There have been many, many times when Catholics did not give 80% of their vote to the democrats.
No one expects the Catholic vote to become republican, within a few years it will return to purely democrat.
There is no war against Catholics, but as we learn from the article, Rome over in Europe, is at war with conservatism in America and wants to make it European socialist.
As Americans, and as conservatives we need to fight that.