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I’ve just finished the first draft of a new book for catechumens and candidates in the RCIA process. My goal was to help the catechumens and candidates understand what it means to see and respond to the world through Catholic eyes. The book isn’t a catechetical text. That’s what their parish formation sessions are for. [...]

I’m writing a guidebook for catechumens and candidates. My hope is to give them some ideas about how to look at the world through Catholic eyes. The book is not intended to be a “catechism” that gives them an outline of the faith. I figure you’re already doing that in your catechetical sessions with them. [...]

Several people have reported trouble playing back the video. We have a few ideas that might help, but we are not too sharp about computer stuff ourselves. So if you have a techie friend, he or she can probably solve your problem more easily than we can. That said, here are a couple of things [...]

To see how you might use one of these points in your catechesis, read “How to lead a 90-minute catechetical session.” The Way of Faith Explain that the Resurrection of Jesus is the crowning truth of our faith, a faith handed down to us by the first disciples. In the news While Mexico or Havana [...]

The crack IT department here at TeamRCIA (pictured) appologizes if you’ve been trying to get on the site in the last 24 hours. There were some nasty coding and technical problems that we were up all night trying to solve. Okay, we were only up until midnight, and we were multitasking between fixing the site [...]

The latest newsletter of the North American Forum on the Catechumenate is now available. Among the contents you will find: an appreciation and sampling of pictures from Forum’s Fifth International Convocation, November 6-8, 2008, in Cleveland, Ohio a fine reflection on the Catechumenate in relation to all catechesis 3 important resource reviews the 2009 calendar [...]

Reading II 2 Pt 3:8-14 But according to his promise we await new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. The way of faith By death the soul is separated from the body, but in the resurrection God will give incorruptible life to our body, transformed by reunion with our soul. Just as [...]

Under normal circumstances, the folks at TeamRCIA think big fonts are a good thing. But not when the fonts are typefaces that make the Web site look like a large-print edition of Reader’s Digest. If the Web browser you are using is Internet Explorer, you’ve been seeing a pretty ugly Web site here for the [...]