That particular scene is indeed exaggerated, but calling it "wacky" dismisses its the message was illustrating.
In that scene, the sermon begins with the priest blowing his nose rather loudly, almost demonstrating that he had no sense of self-awareness. At this this point it is important to bear in mind that it is a movie,and that the nose-blowing was scripted, and considering the context of the movie, it had a seemingly small but meaningful message; that priests are humans with bodily functions.
Then, the priest goes on to say that "lust" is the worse of the 7 deadly sins, which echoes the whole stance that the catholic church has taken on (or rather against) humanity. Actually, that is only the priests own personal opinion which has absolutely no biblical foundation, nor philosophical backing. So then, the scene then becomes an illustration of how priests are humans who misconstrue reality to fit their own personal agenda of condemnation.
The priest also mentions how lust is one of "the dreadful sins of the flesh". Actually, there is not "sin" that is positive in nature, so his use of the term dreadful is not meant to categorize or define something, but merely to impress a feeling of terror or guilt upon the listener. Then, there are no "sins of the flesh" in christianity, for sin is something exclusive to the "heart" of man. Therefore, the priest is spouting gibberish without religious backing with forceful rhetoric which mesmerizes the superficially-thinking people in the audience. This latter point is evident as one of the women walking out of the church says " I really like this new priest. Such words from a young man, very reassuring." It is difficult to imagine how such words are by any means "reassuring", since they have absolutely no basis on reality, not even a biblical backing, they were nothing but paranoid rants. However, it is possible that the woman meant that it was reassuring to see a "young" man condemn sex, because to her it may have seemed that it is one lustful person less or something. Actually however, her remark of how he was "at least not trying to be trendy with the kids" is almost humorously ironic, since that is where kids come from. Thus, the woman fails to acknowledge that her very own kids were the biproduct of sex, which I assume must be unpleasant unless it enjoyed "lustfully". It is then that it becomes apparent, that they have just been subjugated to the unfounded (scientific or even biblical) of the one activity that unifies all human beings, men and women;sex.
That particular scene which you mentioned ties in to the final scene in the theater, where the audience has no idea about what the actions of the girls mean, but yet the applaud senselessly and fervently. The final scene is meant to culminate the movie into one final point; that groups of people (particularly religious) has no idea of the meaning of that which applaud and praise in churches.
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