How would this good inquisition proceed?

 

 

 

Only the Pope can give a final answer to that question, although we have a few suggestions.

 

1) An Inquisitorial Committee approved by the Pope would start by publishing a document explaining the suboptimal state of the Church in the Province of Quebec, and its intention to proceed with a good inquisition.

 

2) All religious leaders (Bishops, priests and deacons, but also Theology Professors and educators in Seminaries) would participate in ceremonies where they would publicly reassert their love for the Apostolic See of Rome. We can sketch out what this simple and dignified ceremony would look like:

 

          - The Ceremony would occur in each parish, at the Sunday Mass where attendance is the greatest.

          - The local religious leader would receive from the hands of the Archbishop a copy of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

          - Then, that leader would make his Profession of Faith and his Pledge of Loyalty.

          - Then, that leader would kiss the episcopal ring of the Archbishop, to signify his submission to Jesus Christ, whose Vicar is the Pope, represented here by the Archbishop.

          - The Archbishop would order all the faithful to come and tell him if ever they heard anything whatsoever that wasn't in accordance with the official teachings of the Church.

          - Finally, a group picture and a good round of applause!

 

3) The Inquisitorial Committee would write sermons defending the dogmas of faith and the moral truths that are most violently attacked these days, and then order all priests to read word-for-word these sermons, and nothing but these sermons, one at each Sunday Mass, while supplies lasted.

 

4) The same  Inquisitorial Committee would establish a schedule of public demonstrations targeting abortion camps, stripper bars, anti-family organizations, factories that criminally pollute, provincial and federal Members of Parliament who claim to be Catholic and yet vote for immoral laws, and so on. The religious leaders would then have to participate (peacefully and legally, of course) in one or more of these events, and read in front of the crowd the declaration written by the Committee.

 

5) That's all! According to us, that would be plenty enough to flush the wolves out into the open. All the Bishop would have to do then is deal with these people according to Canon Law and Canadian Law.

 

 

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