Is there such a thing as “Confraternity of Christian Doctrine,” or is it simply a code term for “religious education.” I’ve never met anyone who said, “I’m in the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine,” or anything like that.
RCIA, although it may puzzle some people, is at least an acronym for an ongoing program in most parishes.
Allegedly the organization does exist, although I agree that we don’t hear much about it other than the initials.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03711b.htm
http://catholicexchange.com/the-confraternity-of-christian-doctrine/
RCIA, although it may puzzle some people, is at least an acronym for an ongoing program in most parishes.
Unfortunately. I can remember being stuck in one of these when trying to enter the Church and could only imagine it was some sort of a test to weed out the less than fully committed. It went on and on and there was never anything Catholic about it except for repeated made up rituals about sending and acceptance and such like. Surely, if one must endure such things that would have been a good time to teach some of these peculiar Catholic terms this article mentions. But, sadly, no. Just a lot of singing of Protestant songs and learning Protestant prayers. What would all of those Protestants we were there with have done without such instruction I wonder?