...question.  It was not made loudly, but it did work on all the Catholics for Obama sites.  Catholics voted for Obama those years in the same proportion of the general population.  We will see if we can revise this line of argument for the next election and make Catholics MORE likely to vote Democratic again.

In matters of electoral politics, if the Church really wants to have influence, it will ask us first.  The bishops can no longer speak in our name without doing so (especially if  the Johnson Amendment is repealed - for right now, the Church cannot speak as a group at all except sideways).  Simply have a meeting where we can make our arguments and then vote, preferably by secret ballot, on whom to endorse.  We used to elect bishops, so none of this Church not being a democracy thing is relevant.  It started as one and did well. Of course, the arguments may change some minds, which is the last thing the bishops want, since Truth has a liberal bias.