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To: Biggirl; daniel1212
Set those questions aside and let the new Christian Catholics get to KNOW their faith FIRST.

Of course. Cause answering them would cause the whole house of cards to fall and they'd know better.

Better to let them become well indoctrinated before answering questions that would make them think twice.

If their new found faith was worth its salt, it could handle questions like that. If it can't or their shaken by it, it goes to show that the foundation of their faith is weak and really deserves a closer second look.

33 posted on 06/15/2014 9:18:20 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: metmom
Better to let them become well indoctrinated before answering questions that would make them think twice.

But that is to be discouraged,

It follows that the Church is essentially an unequal society, that is, a society comprising two categories of per sons, the Pastors and the flock...the one duty of the multitude is to allow themselves to be led, and, like a docile flock, to follow the Pastors. - VEHEMENTER NOS, an Encyclical of Pope Pius X promulgated on February 11, 1906.

“All that we do [as must be patent enough now] is to submit our judgment and conform our beliefs to the authority Almighty God has set up on earth to teach us; this, and nothing else.”

Holding to Catholic principles how can he do otherwise? How can he consistently seek after truth when he is convinced that he holds it? Who else can teach him religious truth when he believes that an infallible Church gives him God's word and interprets it in the true and only sense? — (John H. Stapleton, Explanation of Catholic Morals, Chapter XXIII “Absolute, immediate, and unfaltering submission to the teaching of God's Church on matters of faith and morals-----this is what all must give..” —“Henry G. Graham, "What Faith Really Means",

39 posted on 06/15/2014 10:46:04 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: metmom

I will repeat what I said this morning, the first half of the RCIA process is the inquiry period. It is where they ask questions.

You have to understand that when you are confirmed you agree you believe what the Catholic Church holds to be true and no one wants anyone to do that in ignorance.

Believe me, they ask all the standard “Protestant” questions. I know I did.


49 posted on 06/15/2014 1:03:15 PM PDT by tiki
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