Scrupulosity--marked by obsessions and preoccupations with rules and regulations--can be negatively staggering and life-long in its impact. On a person. On a church.

The Church has made that institutional sin into a virtue. 

Too, it has made efficiency, doing things right, more important than effectiveness, doing the right things.

It has allowed a Burke's view of "the law"--with canons, regulations, punishments, legalisms, et al--to be "the Church teaches." 

In the Church, clerical RULES--not laity ROLES--govern.

It's like a scorecard, cookbook approach to diluting faith: how many prayers...on what specific days...how much gluten...how-to hold the chalice...physiology guidelines for receiving the Eucharist..how not to make love...how many visits to get an indulgence...where the priest should face...what genders do what, when

We've made the non-essential into the essential. And that's wrong. Very wrong.

In the essentials, unity.
In non-essentials, liberty.
In everything, charity.