American Inquisition

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msproule:
Some of our stronger Bishops have already taken the lead:

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=9946&highlight=bishop+baker+oregon

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=8474&highlight=bishop+baker+oregon
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Good, time for the shepherds to protect the flock.
 
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Scott_Lafrance:
I agree that the need for this has been long overdue. I am just trying to find the right balance between doctrinal orthodoxy and proper discipline for contradicting it. I know there is a loud clamour for exommunications and public annunciation of dissention, but I am not sure if these fall within the Christian ethic of loving correction. Ideally, the purpose of an Inquisition is to find heresy, stop it, and bring its adherents back into the fold. I am not sure that publicly excoriating dissenters is the right way to go, even though part of me would like to see a few of the more vocal dissenters, cough, ahem FATHER MCBRIEN ahem, cough, be publically disciplined or anathemized.
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Yes, historically the Church’s role in the Inquisition was to correct heresy and to bring its adherents back into the fold. The burnings and so on were for the most part perpetrated by opportunistic secular forces going for the big land grabs. The Church actually appointed travelling lawyers to represent the accused who were, for the most part, illiterate.

One thing having a 21st Century Inquisition would be to correct the appalling lies perpetrated by the anti-Catholic crowd.

The process must be public in order to be able to protect it from abuses and in order to use the Inquisition to teach. The heretics must realize that the deposit of the faith has been to the Church and that that Church is a community of believers not a feeding fest for lone sharks. Bring back the shame-based society! Bring back the sensibility that one’s error broke one’s very being by virtue of breaking one’s communion among neighbours. This would do more to heal the errant Lutheran List of Solas than any thing else. We are not islands nor rocks unto ourselves.
 
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