RC officialdom’s tilt to the left is a matter of long-standing precedent, let the (sad) record show.  Catholic periodicals responding to Depression  problems

were generally sympathetic to the social-welfare legislation of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. John A. Ryan, Raymond McGowan, and William Montavon were frequently supportive, and Bishop William O’Brien went so far as to declare that “when the greatest depression in our history threatened our country and seemed about to submerge it, Almighty God raised up Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the apostle of the New
Deal.”

Only the then-dormant or even non-existent abortion issue prevents our current bishops from likewise bloviating, one fears.

Thus Thomas E. Blantz in The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 72, No. 3 (Jul., 1986), p. 516, reviewing The Response in American Catholic Periodicals to the Crises of the Great Depression, 1930-1935, by Lawrence B. DeSaulniers.

With bishops like O’Brien — a Chicago auxiliary, wouldn’t you know it, and later an archbishop and director of the Chicago-based Catholic Church (home-mission) Extension Society — who needed Steve Early?