It won’t work, friends. We will not be able to continue to pronounce implacable sentences on everything that is happening in the world, to show how outraged we feel by the crimes and misdeeds of politicians, to denounce all these cases as symptoms of the galloping corruption that surrounds us, if at the same time we remain silent in the face of the greatest scandal of moral corruption of our time. It will not even be possible to devalue it with the “Jacobinism”, “anticlericalism” and “wokism” of the accusers, or with those pocket banalities, elevator music for all occasions, such as that “the Church is also made of men”.
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