‘The old catholic church, right after Vatican II, was leftist and silent on leftist social issues and often supportive’.
Not true. The Catholic Church has never been liberal on abortion, marriage and homosexuality. After Roe v. Wade Catholics basically stood alone in protesting the slaughter of the unborn. Catholics started the pro-life movement.
Not true. I was in Catholic school when nuns promoted abortion in classes. They were not outspoken against it like they are now because too many were for it.
You are seeing the same thing repeat with homosexuality now. They have refused to admit that the molesters were homos and act logically upon that fact by purging homos.