[wideawake]

Well, one clue is the fact that everyone in the church building receives communion - even though the statistical likelihood of every person in the building having refrained from serious sin or having confessed their sins before communion is about 0%.

If people were seriously examining their consciences during the Confiteor, that wouldn't happen.

[Ransomed]

I bet that many who receive have never been told of the requirements. 30+ years with no real teaching creates a lot of folks who are ignorant (not necessarily disobedient). I can’t remember ever hearing a priest talk about it, at least not from the pulpit.

Freegards

[Jim Noble]

Well, one clue is the fact that everyone in the church building receives communion

I always thought that the fact that everyone except me receives communion at every Catholic mass I go to (and I go every week) meant that you Catholics had the whole sin thing whipped.

Gee whiz...