Br. Rich-
In my experience, limited I admit, the catechumenate, (more correctly the periods of pre-catechumenate/inquiry, catechumenate, purification and enlightenment, and mystagogy), but not the RCIA, is part of the Latin Church and ECCs, as well as the Orthodox. This happened to come up today in a class I’m in, taught by a EC priest with mainly Latin Church students. He was not comfortable with using “RCIA” to talk about the the periods of pre-catechumenate, catechumenate, purification and enlightenment, and mystagogy in the East. I observe also that the Rites described in the Rites book of RCIA are connected to the Roman Missal.
Pax et bonum- Mary
