Yours is a hard statement RCW. Sadly, it seems so true. It is my opinion that the world needs Catholicism more now than ever.  Sadly, it has ceded its place in the "public square" to ridicule and/or irrelevance. 
On a more general level, Christianity, led by Catholicism has so absorbed human values into religion that as such they have a) become ideological and thus divisive and excluding; b) they have become dogmaticly definitive to be followed rotely, without reflective thought, and c) having lost their basis in real human life, living, "boots on my ground", they have become part of a logic, a system that has little evidence of being grounded in me, in us.  
To the point "Ethics" is either a "catechism" item of religiosity that is imposed or an esoteric consideration for specific professions, like bioethics.
Get ethics, compassion, civility, love out of the Bible for a while. Teach "civics" a la Aristotle and Jesus as real "experts in humanity" not clericalism.