RCIA is it fixed in stone?

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I have been helping out for two years in two RCIA programs and sat in with a Protestant convert on a one-to-one teaching by a priest.

My main grouses with the RCIA program(s) are:
  1. When Peter spoke after Pentecost, 3000 people were converted that same day. So why do we really need to make enquirers go through 1.5 years? Why can’t we get them baptise after a short basic course and then “fill in the details” later?
I have heard arguments about the need for good grounding but there are some people who have problems keeping a regular schedule for classes and we tend to loose them.
  1. The four different priests seem have different agenda and emphasis on what is needed. I have yet to see a definitive list of the RCIA topic requirements i.e. what must be accomplished.
Every priest in every parish “does his own thing”

My proposal for a unifed teaching programme was rebuffed.

Also teaching skills can inspire or kill the interest of some enquirers. One enquirer, actually a whole family, pulled out of a course before they were bored to tears. Fortunately, they managed to join another RCIA group and were eventually baptised.

Anyone else experienced the same thing?
Believe me if Benedict XVI came here and spoke with a large group of Catechumens, then orders that they be Baptized! I don’t believe that anyone would argue with him or oppose the order either.
 
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