There is controversy about a coach for a Catholic University being chastised for his announced "pro abortion" stance expressed in a public forum for a political candidate. The chastisement is of course correct to do. As a short cut here is one of my many analogies to help people to understand the Catholic Church's position.
Suppose you are a medical student. One of your instructors has decided on her own that the medical school is wrong in their teaching of surgical procedure. So on her own your surgical instructor decides to teach that you should not wash and sterilize before surgery, that you should rub some crap on the scalpel before using it in the surgery, and that you should use the dullest part of the scalpel to cut with. She further recommends some good spit on the staples that close the wound. Not only does she use this "procedure" but she teaches this as being the new and enlightened, more relaxed way to do surgery to the next generation of students. Should she be chastised? Ya think?
It is not up to the Catholic Church to "lighten up" or "revise" their anti abortion position. This is the given position given to them by the chief doctor God. Just because a member of the instruction staff thinks crapping into a patient's surgical incision is a good idea does not mean that it changes chief doctor God's statement of the truth now or EVER.
I remember the days when I could speak to people, and write these examples, with more graceful language and delicacy of expression. But like Mr. Spock discovered when the Enterprise went back in time to save some whales, no one listens anymore unless you cuss the crap out of them. The Catholic Church is not now or not ever going to "override" what God has instructed regarding the sanctity of life and if you had any intelligence at all you would be glad of that.