Some Catholics are a lot more progressive than most evangelicals. A little more than half of US catholics support abortion in at least some cases, and their opposition to abortion is that you're only supposed to have missionary married sex to have babies. They don't think it's murder. They're also not fundamentally rooted in racism, segregation, and white supremacy the way the evangelicals are. You can pretty easily lie to yourself about what the Catholic Church is and does and try to be a progressive Catholic.