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Entry: Theological Cannon Fodder Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/theological_cannon_fodder#18155 Post contents: "Every single adult convert to Catholicism I have known has complained about the 4th-grade intellectual level of the programs for the “Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults"--whose initials (RCIA) should really stand for “Repelling Converts In-Advertently.” This made me laugh out loud. Add me to the pile. Despite my coming from being an observant Anglo-Catholic and holding a BA degree in Philosophy and Religion and enduring nearly a year of seminary in the Episcopal Church and having published a bit in some Anglican Theological journals I had to go through RCIA taught by a nit-wit feminist hippie on the parish council. I couldn’t stand it anymore and dropped out. Mercifully, the priest at our Parish where we settled in France was just so darn glad to have another family showing up to weekly Mass he didn’t insist I start over. I suppose some local battleaxe is angry that her opportunity to subvert me into being a “dissenting” Catholic was thwarted and the Bishop probably takes a dim view of the sloppy process of my reception, but France is a nation of miracles. And I pray for the recovery and restoration of the Holy Ampoule. Sent at: 2009 01 08