Are RCIA converts required to believe all doctrines?

[Strider]

Part of the problem is RCIA itself. There is absolutely no oversight of this program from anywhere. This leaves the uninfoirmed, ignorant or those with an agenda free to wreak havoc on unsuspecting catechumans.

I attended the RCIA class in my parish Wednesday night. What a joke.

Someone from the Vatican should put out a CCC-based MANDATORY curriculum for RCIA, and each diocese should have a trained compliance officer.

I volunteer.

I posted this response in another thread, but it’s a perfect fit here.
There are serious problems with RCIA, and the catechumens are the losers. We have to fix it somehow.

 

[mercygate]

CARose:

I found that each time I prayed, “I accept the truth, I believe, God help my unbelief” I was nearly always answered in the most incredible ways with the information necessary to touch my heart and mind.
CARose

Ain’t it amazin’?

As a Convert, my prayer was: “Lord, if it IS your Church, then I need to be in it, not out of it. Do to me whatever it takes to make that happen.”

 

[LariamTox]

Thanks to everyone who replied! :tiphat: I may be back soon asking your (name removed by moderator)ut again.You have given me alot of insight. Most things I can answer but when virtually everyone in the room disagrees with me, it is more challanging. I am also a convert. I was confirmed this year. It took me 2 years of RCIA and study on my own to convert. RCIA does need some work. Together we can make it happen. Of course RCIA is probally a smaller part of a larger problem. For example, my parish priest was speaking about the final judgement a couple of weeks ago and said that if we had done more good things than bad things, we would go to heaven.(impling that the final state of the soul doesn’t really matter.) I could not believe my ears. I have not had time to dicuss this with him but I will eventually. It seems that the rest of the people teaching RCIA including the priest unfortantely, don’t want to scare off new converts with the “truth”.

 

[RobedWithLight]

If you want to become a Catholic, then you must accept and believe all that Catholicism teaches.

Gerry

 

[HarveyL]

Once I realized this during RCIA, and being a man of my word, I felt relieved. I keep my promises and vows and, so, I will keep my Baptismal promises and the vows I made during Confirmation. It’s easy when it’s clearly laid out before me.

If you want to become a Catholic, then you must accept and believe all that Catholicism teaches.

Gerry

 

[Brendan]

This might help

dogma vs. doctrine
Question from Mary on 11/17/2002:

You recently expressed a distinction between dogma and doctrine in an answer regarding the infallability of the Catechism. Could you define both of these terms and explain how I can distinguish between them? The Catechism seems to use them interchangably. Thank you and God bless you.

Answer by Fr. Robert J. Levis on 11/18/2002:
Mary, Dogma is doctrine that has been taught by the Pope infallibly, or by an Ecumenical Council in extraordinary fashion, or by the Ordinary Magisterium of the Church. When Pope and Council defines a doctrine it is dogma from then on. The teaching office of the hierarchy under the Pope, thru the usual channels of communication, whether written, spoken, or practical, is also infallible when collectivly intended for all the faithful.E.g.

The Immaculate Conception and the Assumption of Mary are dogmas. Any truth taught by the Church as necessary for acceptance by the Faithful is doctrine. The truth that artificial contraception is sinful is doctrine. In July 1998, the Motu Proprio of the Pope stated that all the teaching of the authentic Magisterium of the Church must be accepted even when not presented as dogma, even when they are not defined. These must be accepted by all. Consequently, all the teaching found in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which is not formally defined as dogma, must still be accepted by all believers.

God bless you. Fr. Bob Levis

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