That may be, but right now he’s on the right side of history, and that’s what counts.

True. The church does not. However, there have been individual acts of courage throughout the years by priests, nuns, and others who have fought fascism and given aid to the poor. Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Archdiocese of Detroit, was arrested numerous times while protesting the Vietnam War.

Standing up against genocide and fascism: Bishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero (15 August 1917 – 24 March 1980) El Salvador Titus Brandsma 23 February 1881 – 26 July 1942) was a Dutch Carmelite priest and a professor of philosophy. Killed in Dachau concentration camp There are many more.

Gumbleton never caught flak for that - but when he admitted publicly that he had been abused by clergy in the church as a child, THEN the church made him resign.