The priest in our church tried that shortly after 9/11. An audible rumble went through the congregation and he stopped short, mumbled something, and quit the pulpit.
Last week, a visiting missionary asked parishioners to fill out a form for his order's magazine and put them in the collection basket. He then made some veiled criticism of the war, at which point all the people sitting around us put the forms quietly into the missile rack -- didn't see one in the collection basket.
God works in mysterious ways, and I can't help thinking that the church's handling of the pederasty scandal has steeled the hearts -- and spines -- of at least some Catholics to the next attack on decency, i.e. the anti-war, peace-at-any-price crusaders among the hierarchy.
Good to know. Our own church leadership leans left (multi-culti, feminized) more than I'd like, and it's gotten more obnoxious over the past year. I've intentionally stopped tithing to the church. Only exception I make is if the church is acting as a clearinghouse for money to go to another member in need. We've had at least one heated discussion erupt in a service when the preacher started browbeating people for not praying for their enemies. Very interesting to see how people define their allegiances (nationalistic, religious, whatever) when the heat is turned up.