The Catholic church wants to "pray". Maybe they're getting too much $$$$ from the gun folks and will limit their opposition to prayers which don't mean much.  Maybe that's why, for years, they moved their pedophile priests from parish to parish since defrocking them would also reduce income. Churches without a full time priest don't bring in much money and the supply of young priests from Ireland has just about dried up since all the pedophile scandals broke there.