The Gospel has a word for those who cause or lead the young to sin: “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.” (Mt 18:6) This shows how Jesus himself condemns scandalizing the young.

This is again a call for us (yes, especially Church people, the educated class, and those who have people under their care) to do something (not to throw people into the sea with millstones tied to their neck, but to throw away attitudes, paradigms, structures of bad politics and reform). Surely, this is easier said than done.

Frankly, I am now at a lost as to how we can regain political integrity and social responsibility. Maybe we can think of ways, and collaborate.