A 2021 survey of Austrian priests inquires whether we’ve followed through on the new (restored) paths to Christian initiation in this conciliar age.
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Category: Initiation / RCIA
Brief Book Review: Rethinking Catholic Devotions
“The author offers the beginning reader a helpful vision for situating Catholic devotional practice in the Christian life, without falling into superstition and problematic practices that eclipse the redemptive power of the paschal mystery.”
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Brief Book Review: Death by Baptism
Honeycutt confronts head-on truncated understandings of baptism as “fire insurance” against eternity in hell or as supernatural guarantee against misfortune.
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Brief Book Review: Turn to the Lord
“DeLorenzo asks us to take sacramental preparation out of the classroom and into more intimate and personal faith formation groups.”
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Chrism Mass Conundrum, or, Order of Oils
Some oddities in the way things unfold in this rite….
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There Are Good Reasons to Support the RCIA – A response to an essay at NCR
The Church today asks us to conduct ourselves in a particular way in Christian initiation because the way we initiate is a fundamental expression of who we are.
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Working in the Vineyard: TeamRCIA
TeamRCIA nurtures and supports catechumenate ministers to be the listening church.
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Brief Book Review: Unfolding the Mystery of Christ
Anne Koester reviews Eliot Kapitan, Unfolding the Mystery of Christ.
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Godparents Abolished Part II
Last year I published a post on PrayTell telling how Bishop Michele Fusco of the central-Italian Diocese of Sulmona-Valva, Italy, had abolished godparents in his
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The Confirmation Conversation, continued
If the confirmation debate is over, it’s probably only over for now.
Paul Turner responds to Tim Gabrielli.