No one can accuse the RCC of being “out of touch;” they are a supremely successful, intelligence gathering operation. They do what Ambrose Bierce defined as “deliberation.” That is: “Examining one's bread to determine which side the butter is on.” The hierarchy of the RCC is cynically in touch with their own political advantage. That is why the Church is becoming so Conservative, because only the most reactionary Catholics will follow their absurd orders. Hopefully, that is a shrinking pool of true believers, who have more faith in a Pope than in their own sense of decency. This ugly denunciation of health care reform proves that. Anyone who sits in church and listens to that has lost all sense of what it means to be an American.

This is explicitly what Americans feared when they violently opposed the late 19th century immigration of the Irish, Italians, the Swiss and the Poles. They feared that these European immigrants would be bad Americans, who took political orders from anti-democratic popes, through cynical Bishops. That is the disgraceful state of the contemporary Roman Catholic Church in America. Had those 19th century Americans foreseen the undue influence that these Bishops presume to exert on American politics, they would have sunk the boats that brought my grandparents to Ellis Island.

that's the bold headline of this article. the headline is the strongest thing people will take. and that suggestion that Catholic Church is anti-health reform gets reinforced throughout the article. he does not just make the argument you're making. he goes way further into suggesting things that are flat out unfair.