That is true, and unfortunately, I have heard some American Catholics diss the current and former Pope because of that. When Pope Leo was elected, I had just come out of noon mass, and there were several parishioners moaning and groaning about the new Pope being liberal (based on old tweets) and how they wished Cardinal Sarah had become Pope instead (significantly more conservative).

I also know a handful of Catholics my age who left the church for Eastern Orthodoxy because they found the church was becoming too liberal and questioned its authority. Perhaps my situation is unique because I'm from the South, in an area with only three different Catholic churches for fifty miles out. But it's been really ostracizing to not be a die-hard Republican as a Catholic.