It varies priest by priest and parish by parish. We don't get this much at our home parish, but we travelled to South Florida and experienced exactly what you are posting.
Much of the "politics" you hear from the pulpit is driven by the Church's reaction to the ACA ("Obamacare"
and the Church's perception that the birth control mandate violates their "Religious Liberty." So the "Call the Bishop/Archbishop" reaction that is mentioned down-thread, won't work.
I've noticed something else: the priests that seem to go hard in this direction are fans of Pope Benedict. My sense is that the Benedict crowd is ambivalent about Pope Francis, so far. My further sense is what they really wanted to replace Benedict was another hard-line theologian who would roll back Vatican II. - not a Holy Father whose central themes have been reconciliation with the Islamic world and care for the world's poor.
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