I have concluded that converts. . .

[Brian_C]

You are of course, correct. I transposed some of Jimmy Akin’s details onto Carl!

Obviously a silly convert error.

 

[NewGuyInChurch]

I still think this whole debate is a lot of talk about nothing. Good Catholic should run the RCIA program – regardless of background. End of story.

 

[stanmaxkolbe]

I still think this whole debate is a lot of talk about nothing. Good Catholic should run the RCIA program – regardless of background. End of story.

Catholic Answers Live “A Nation In Decline” August 17, 2005 and listen to Jude Daugherty about what was going on when Vatican II was first introduced at universities and you will have a better understanding why there is a lot of unorthodox teachings going on.

http://www.catholic.com/radio/calendar.php

I’m lucky my Parish is pretty orthodox. Oh yeah I’m “fired up for Christ’s Church.”

 

[Jennifer_J]

Doesn’t it strike you as a little odd that, as evidenced on these forums, so many people make a deliberate, adult-age decision to become Catholics, presumably because they are attracted to the Church somehow, and then they proceed to complain that what they are thought at RCIA isn’t Catholic enough, that existing, mostly “cradle” Catholics who have been Catholic all their lives don’t know their own Faith (despite being raised in Catholic cultures that go back centuries and even a couple of millenia), or that they immediately start advocating for pre-Vatican II “traditions” as they perceive (or mis-perceive them), masses in Latin, tattle to the Bishop or the Vatican about whatever perceived abuse their parish Priest committed, etc.

Has it not occurred to you that perhaps you are too new to fully understand the Church in its entirety?

It begs the question, if you don’t like the Church as it really is today, why did you join it in the first place? Did you join some imaginary fundamentalist Church based on whatever you read on the internet or watched on TV, and then found that it wasn’t fundamentalist enough for you?

I know my RCIA program WASN’T Catholic enough and didn’t teach me anything near what personal study did. You continue to throw around hateful comments about converts. You truly have something against us, huh? Such a shame, cutting off a part of the body of Christ.

Jennifer

 

[THutch04]

Personally I’m always shocked when I see how much Catholics of my generation DON’T know about their faith. It’s really sad that there are young Catholics who don’t know what the Sacraments are, don’t know what the Immaculate Conception is, and don’t think that Sunday Mass attendance is mandatory. That’s just a little bit of what I’ve heard since being out here.

I think that having converts on the RCIA team certainly brings a lot to the process. Personally my RCIA class was run by a convert as well as a cradle Catholic. There were things that could’ve been done differently, but on the whole I think that both did a great job. The conversion status of our leader was rarely an issue; it only came up a couple of times, and the whole class pretty much viewed her as being just as Catholic as those who were born into it.

Personally I enjoyed my RCIA experience, and I’ve gotten involved in it this year as well. The experience gave me so much, and I wanted to be able to give back in some way. For those who say converts should wait (which I agree isn’t necessarily a bad thing), how long is it before they ‘know enough’ and are ‘qualified enough’ to teach the Catholic faith?