But you have to get the order right.
That the Church had a scandal in the first place is our fault, your, mine, our grandparents, etc.

We let tepidity enter the Church in our own interior and eventually exterior lives. 
We re-defined the moral law to suit what we think are our needs and wants.
We did it a long time ago.
We lowered the bar.

"It was not so from the beginning" are Whose words?