No, society does not just lock the filth up in prison. Society elects the filth to political office. Society gives the filth teaching positions in public schools. Society appoints the filth to ministry positions in protestant congregations. Society demands the the Boy Scouts, against their wishes, allow the filth to besmirch their organization. Society demands that the military accept the filth. Society allows the filth to pretend that they are married. Society lauds the filth in entertainment and news media. Society bends over to give the filth high-tech platforms from which to belch its evil into the hearts and minds of the innocent.
Don't you dare to preach some smarmy codswallop about the supposed holiness or moral rectitude of "society". Your vaunted "society" is the source of the filth. The Church indeed failed in its God-given duty to evangelize and sanctify the society, and deserves reprimand for that. The Church indeed allowed the filth of society to infect it, and contributed to that filth. The Church deserves reprimand for that, too. The "reprimand" has been strongest, and rightly so, from actual Catholics. Moreover, the reprimand from actual Catholics has the benefit of being rooted in the truth, unlike some of the rubbish from "society".
But this? Holding up our filthy "society" as some kind of paragon of virtue???? Nonsense; nasty, false, dishonourable, utterly and irredemably reprehensible nonsense at its worst.
Shame on you again.
The Catholic church claims the moral and spiritual high ground as representatives of Christ on earth.
They’d BETTER be cleaning up the filth. I couldn’t see Jesus excusing that kind of behavior.
Society has these problems as well because the church has failed them.
Whatever stones you cast at society can be cast at your own church until and unless it takes determined and decisive action in regard to the moral problems of its priests.
Catholics are great about pointing fingers and saying *Yeah but...... What about _______?* and it’s totally irrelevant what the rest of the world does. The Church is supposed to SET the standard for moral behavior, not follow it.