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Yes, it is sad but BenedictXVI is telling it like it is. Right now the fields are white and ready to be harvested; there has been an unprecedented interest in the Church the past couple of weeks, many of them folks who are fleeing denominations which have apostatized and who are hoping to find refuge. It is embarrassing and heartbreaking when they report back to us what some of them have observed when they attend Mass at so called Catholic churches.

It is embarrassing and heartbreaking when they report back to us what some of them have observed when they attend Mass at so called Catholic churches.

It really is. I'm always amazed that anyone manages to convert. Many times they end up finding a good and holy priest who simply instructs them privately (the way it used to be done), because a lot of the RCIA programs are so appalling. I particularly remember a friend who went for three sessions to an RCIA program conducted at a Jesuit church by a dim-bulb, fully heterodox nun who had them spend their time gazing into a candle flame. Sister Snowflake announced that the Catholic Church was not bound by "doctrines" anymore. My friend went off and found a good conservative priest and made it into the Church!