Here's a relatively new website called "Waking Up Catholic," carrying the description: "RCIA information and resources." This is a welcome clearinghouse for anyone seeking basic information about the Catholic Faith. There are other sources of information, of course, but not always geared as pointedly as this one toward RCIA (Right of Christian Initiation of Adults).
Anyone familiar with the RCIA process over the last 30 years will know what an embarrassment it has been in far too many parishes, because of the way any newcomer starved for the solid red meat and red wine of Catholic resources was sent away instead with a Twinkie, soda pop and pendant with the embossed lyrics to "Kumbaya" on it.
Should have been called "Rite for Care-bear Initiation of Imbeciles" instead. Sorry: there were some good programs too, I admit, though they have been rare.
"Waking Up Catholic" may not give you the metaphysics of absolute divine simplicity or a summary of Garrigou-Legrange's tome on Predestination, but it will give anyone a good start, largely by steering him in the right direction.
Thanks, Mr. Chad Torgerson, for this resource.
6 comments:
Philip,
I object! Next you'll say that public schools are failing our students. Surely you recognize the need for a paradigm shift from our pre-Conciliar ghetttoized Catholic ideas? The programs aren't failing: they're striving for a different goal than merely imparting the Baltimore Catechism. They're trying to inculcate post-modern radical ecclesiology, and use only small words, because John and Mary (soon-to-be) catholic don't use technical theological terms in their daily lives.
"... use only small words ..."
I guess that qualifies as a notch above the grunts and snorts of farmyard beasts? Or is "farmyard" too cultured a contrast?
RCIA has been a disaster and a travesty in my parish for the last 30 years; and I have not heard of any parish in my diocese where the program could be considered consistently reliable or substantial. Why do they leave us to be slopped by swineherds when we've a banquet room available with kitchen shelves stocked with provisions for a feast?
Anonymous,
The priest is in charge ask him. I read this on someone’s post, “If you pay peanuts you attract monkeys.”
Catholic,
Yeah, ask the priest. That's good, if he sees the problm. But "pay peanuts ..." works only if yor Protestnt and can hire and fire.
Dark Horse,
My reference to monkeys wasn’t in regards to the priest of course you can’t hire and fire the priest. I was speaking of the priest hiring undereducated DRE’s, youth ministers and catechist who are for the most part volunteers of whom many are good, however there are those who have their own ideas about things echoing the faith that may only be their own.
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