Concubinage is very common in some Catholic countries in South America. And in North America a monsignor wrote the editorial: “Legalize Prostitution​—It’s the Saintly Solution.” (Philadelphia Daily News) Take a look also at the conditions in some Protestant countries where wife swapping, premarital sex, and sex without marriage are quite common. We find a reason for this suggested in the newspaper caption: “Pastors Silent on Premarital Sex.” The article said: “The pastors of America have been sinfully silent in preaching on premarital sex . . . They are afraid they will lose some of their parishioners.” (Telegraph, North Platte, Nebraska) So is all religion a force for moral good?

The Courier-Mail of Brisbane, Australia, commented on the failure of Christendom’s religion to provide a restraint on sexual immorality: “When it comes to Bishops and Canons . . . writing that extramarital intercourse may be an act of charity that ‘proclaims the Glory of God,’ . . . that fornication is not bad in itself nor adultery necessarily wrong; then the ordinary man and woman, and particularly the adolescent boy and girl, become confused between right and wrong. The result of all this propaganda for the New Morality has been a breaking down of moral fences.”