No he had a good go @ maintaining the cleft twixt church & civic responsibility.
Not so in the case of his detractors.
When they could not shift there homo-erotic dissonance to a superb athlete's body and his pair o' swimmers - theirs was indeed the 'language*' and 'expression' that no Catholic was fit to govern Australia.
Why on earth else did we have the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: if it wasn't largely focussed on reducing the locus & stature of Abbott & Pell's faith & so lever the steady putsch of the doctrinaire Fabianists of Gillard and her Gulagers.