They love [the truth] when it shines, they hate it when it reproves.

"Deep down, the issue is not reproach for its past history but the fact that as silent as it seems to remain, the Church reproves the customs or the decisions that disrupt or even prevent the hearing of the Gospel and access to the life of the Spirit.  Under the glaring light of this veritas redarguens, nothing is more normal than that a majority in every society, ourselves included, ceaselessly clamors for the Church to evolve and 'adapt,' for it finally to end up approving our habits, in short for it to leave us in peace with our evils and the words we use to justify them.  And if the Church refuses, as it cannot but do, the majority protests; but with a contradictory protestation, since it thus acknowledges an in fact inordinate importance in the judgment of an institution that it nevertheless claims to impugn and hold as null and void.  The Church cannot 'change with the times' because it cannot change anything about what happens to it, about the call that summons and stirs it.  On the contrary the Church's only ambition must be to change the world of its time, without ever knowing with what success, since that is not in its power.  It is, however, solely up to the Church to improve its response, not to the complaints of the world, but to the initial and final word that Christ puts forth."

     Jean-Luc Marion, A brief apology for a Catholic moment, trans. Stephen E. Lewis (Chicago:  The University of Chicago Press, 2021), 18.  On "this veritas redarguens," see St. Augustine.