While we have a duty to help those that need it with their "physical needs," those needs are NOT even close to the individual's spiritual needs.  A man can be the richest person in the world, with the best of everything in his life, but if he loses his soul, he was an abject failure in life.  Therefore, the Church's primary duty/responsibility is to keep people from falling out of the "Grace of God."  Today's Church - the "Church of Nice" - does't do that, they only seem concerned with the physical needs of man, not his spiritual needs. 

When was the last time you heard a priest give a sermon about hell and how most of today's Catholics are destined for it because they voted for a democrat politician in the USA or any politician that supports the evil of abortion or homosexual marriage?  Read about what St John Vianney, the patron saint of priests - said about how most bishops and priests are destined for hell for not preaching about it and leading their flock astray with liberalism.