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I’m adopting your post to cherry (#112) as a message to me, also. I’m involved with rcia, led by a woman who proudly calls herself progressive. She is an impediment to my journey, and I’m a disruptive voice to her. I am at the point I’m questioning the absolute certainty I once had that my home was with the Catholic faith and it’s tearing me apart.

Pray the rosary Helen.Our Lady will help you.((((Hugs))))

That is what RCIA often seems to exist for: to raise doubts in the hearts of participants and to lead them to question the Faith. Likewise a bevy of organizations of half-baked heretics calling themselves Catholic like Survivors' Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) and Call to Action and organizations focused on attempts to force the ordination of women (which St. John Paul II defined as impossible and that it will never happen) but injecting the poison of progressive ideology in place of the Truth of Jesus Christ, His Church and its Teaching Magisterium.

You know how the song goes: The Vatican is just so mean to homosexuals, to participants in abortion even if Muffie REALLY needs that abortion for social or economic reasons and the abortionist really needs that new Lamborghini, and to divorced and re"married" folks who just cannot be bothered to get an easily available annulment of marriage #1 or 2 or 3. The "progressives" want a Church that accepts each and every sin and the consequences (and the souls in the pews) be dam*ed. Read the reader responses to articles on homosexuality or even abortion in The National "Catholic" Reporter for the agendas of SNAP, Call top Action and similar groups of termites.

I belong to a Church raised to the status of an Oratory by our previous Bishop Thomas Doran and run exclusively by a priest (two priests as of this coming weekend) of The Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest.All Masses and sacraments are of the Tridentine (Old Latin) rite.

When people are converting to Catholicism, there is no RCIA just sessions with the pastor as it used to be and as it ought to be.

The Catholic Faith that you seek can be found not in the chatty progressive termites who abound whenever the laity gets involved in distorting doctrine. It is found in Scripture, in great books by great men: Thomas a Kempis, St. John of the Cross, Bishop Fulton Sheen (such as his Life of Christ), Gilbert K. Chesterton, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Fr. Vincent Micelli, Fr. Malachi Martin, Dietrich von Hildebrand, the writings and encyclicals of solidly Catholic popes: Pope Leo XIII (esp. Rerum Novarum), Pope St. Pius X (esp. Pascendi Domenici Gregis and Lamentabile Sane both against the heresy of Modernism), Pope Pius XI, Pope Pius XII, Pope John Paul I, Pope St. John Paul II (books and encyclicals), and Pope Benedict XVI (books and encyclicals). If you must go through RCIA to become Catholic, books and encyclicals like those mentioned above will arm you to absolutely destroy Madame Progressive running RCIA and arm you for the rest of your life.

If you ever are in Rockford, Illinois, come to St. Mary's Oratory in downtown Rockford, directly across from the County Jail. Meet Canon Brian Bovee and he will introduce you to the kind of Catholicism that ought to be universal.

.Good luck! God bless you and yours!