Roman Catholic Social Teaching Needs to Be Revised

George Weigel, Whose Republic? Which “Liberalism”?:

Thus the real-world option—the real-world imperative—was the hard work
of building and maintaining the moral and cultural foundations essential
to the liberal democratic political project, while playing good defense
against the temptation of the modern democratic state to impede that
reconstruction by using its coercive power to impose on everyone a
dumbed-down notion of freedom as personal willfulness or “choice.”

There is no reason for Catholics to uphold the "liberal democratic political project" as there is no such thing -- what Catholics are doing instead is upholding the state, which is the problem itself. The state is not an valid instantiation of a political community, nor can it be directed to the common good because of its scale.