Why Baptized Candidates Should Not be Received at the Easter Vigil

When should baptized candidates be received into the full communion of the Catholic Church? Paul Turner in When Other Christians become Catholic, says, “Whenever they are ready” (p. 161). The National Statues for the Catechumenate say, not “at the Easter Vigil lest there be any confusion of such baptized Christians with the candidates for baptism […]

Why Baptized Candidates Should Not be Received at the Easter Vigil