For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people—not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”
Get back to me when your organization starts obeying God and doing some purging.
In the meantime, I am not holding my breath. Their track record has not been stellar as of yet.
Not for just 1,000 years: for over 2,000 years every kind of sin and every kind of sinner has been found in the Catholic Church. Yes, sin abounded --- and grace superabounded.
For every Judas we see a Peter; for every Arius an Athanasius; for every Manichaean, a Leo the Great. For every Innocent III there was a Francis of Assisi. For every string of mediocre and semi-apostate popes, and every Johann Tetzel, an all-star (All-Saint) team of the simple, the humble and the wise: Teresa of Avila, Catherine of Siena, Robert Bellarmine, Peter Faber. For every Ted Kennedy, a Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
You've missed a lot of the last 1,000 years.
Have we done nothing to self-reform, by the grace of God? Again and again: Ecclesia semper reformandi. The Church is always to be reformed.
And here's a quote suitable for framing,from Oscar Wilde: "The Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone. For respectable people, the Anglican Church will do."