New inquisition?

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With only a small proportion of Catholics going to mass every Sunday, and an even larger percentage outright rejecting certain church teachings with which they disagree, is a new inquisition necessary amongst the Catholic faithful?

If nothing else, this would prevent the vast amounts of host desecration which goes on in every parish by people recieving communion in a state of mortal sin.
 
What in heaven’s name do you mean by a “new inquisition”? If it’s anything like the old inquisitions, the Church is not going to be detaining people, questioning them and maybe punishing them any time soon. It lacks the legal authority to detain and today’s society would largely reject a church that took such an approach.
 
I mean that mass attendees should be questioned for heresy before they are allowed to continue practicing the faith. The majority of Catholics don’t follow all church teachings. This is not something that can be looked over. It is a crisis.
 
I’ve seen some strange suggestions over the years of CAF, but this . . .
 
I am not cloistered I am out in the world, I do not see any of this going on in my parish or in the surrounding areas. People are not talking about these things and I would like to believe they would if all this was going on. Not going to Mass on Sunday, Rejecting church teachings, vast amounts desecrating the Host??? Where is this coming from? Jesus have Mercy on us…
 
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Let’s assume you are right and this is a “crisis”. Let’s further assume for the sake of argument that the huge practical, spiritual, and legal problems with such an approach magically vanish.

How exactly would this approach help the Church? People would hate being questioned, would leave in droves, others would likely be kicked out and you would end up with 2 dozen people left, half of whom would probably be quibbling between themselves over some obscure interpretation that is not crucial to living a Christian life. Sounds like a great plan, not.
 
Where do you live, if you don’t mind my asking? In my country, the UK, only about 20% of Catholics go to mass every week and 61% support abortion laws as they are. These same people are the ones going to mass and receiving communion. They are professing heresy and are therefore Inna state of mortal sin.
 
Where do you get your facts from? I do not understand, you are posting this for what reason?. The prayer to St. Michael seems to be in order.
 
I can’t provide links because I am a new user. But if you do a web search for “Contemporary Catholicism in England and Wales - A statistical report based on recent British Social Attitudes survey data”
You should find all the data.
 
Are you saying that people who are living in a state of mortal sin should not be told so, and be stopped from receiving communion?
 
You are deluding yourself if you don’t think there is a crisis in the church. In once Catholic France, only 1.8% of the population goes to mass weekly. It is similar across much of Europe. We have a Pope who literally wants to CHANGE church doctrine concerning the death penalty.
 
Inquisition may not have been a good word to use. Could homilists speak out more about the problems you cite. Yes if they are problems where they are preaching. But I have not seen those things and I worked for the Church in a fairly conservative diocese for twenty years. The experience may be different in Britian.
 
I believe this thread should stop for clearly this is getting out of hand and you seem to be “pushing people” into a confrontation. God knows that this is not what its all about. I’ll pray for you.
 
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