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Not even close to unique! We had some Mormon visitors a few weeks ago, who we explained Catholic doctrine to for several hours, then invited back. In the interim before their next visit, I searched out a catholic ex-mormon mailing list to subscribe to, and there are some dreadful excuses for RCIA out there. Fortunately, the one at my former church has been taken over by Father Scalia (yes, THAT Scalia's son) & it is now orthodox & packed, rather than touchy-feely & empty.

...taken over by Father Scalia (yes, THAT Scalia's son) & it is now orthodox & packed, rather than touchy-feely & empty.

Wow. Very cool. Don't they get it? We don't want touchy-feely. We want to be treated like adults!

The kumbaya crop of priests is slowly dying out. And the orthodox priests are coming. We can only hope.

Having the guts (or grace) to remain interested in the Church after a touch of RCIA is quite impressive! I have a friend who wished to convert and was sent to an RCIA program in NY run by a nunnie in her 50s (a bad generation for nuns). Sister Snowflake and the group sat around and held hands and gazed at a candle once a week. Doctrine was entirely absent and when my friend raised a question, she was told it was not important "anymore." I guess Sister had received a private revelation to that effect. IN any case, the class of ten dwindled rapidly; by the third week, it was down to a mentally handicapped man and a woman with a severe drinking problem who probably just got lost on her way to AA and didn't realize it - and my friend. She didn't come back for the fourth week, and fortunately, because she lived in New York, was able to go and get good, intelligent instruction from an orthodox priest at St. Agnes Church. I hope the other folks who fled the RCIA class were also able to do something like this. It's amazing - we do virtually no outreach, no proselytism, and people come to us anyway - and then we drive them away by giving them empty or even misleading and insultingly stupid "instruction." So many wolves within, so many sheep without (Teresa of Avila).