"It works! It really works!" Mary (not her real name) is a parish faith formation coordinator and had traveled across the state to participate in our workshop on the upcoming changes to the Rite of ...

Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults candidates, team members and sponsors talk in groups at Washington University’s Catholic Student Center in St. Louis in this 2012 file photo. (Credit: Lisa ...

The Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults, or RCIA, as it has been more commonly referred to, will have its name changed to Order of Christian Initiation for Adults, or OCIA, the United States ...

For anyone interested in becoming Catholic, wishing to complete the sacraments or wanting to learn more about what the church teaches, the answer for decades was "join RCIA." The Rite of Christian ...

The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA), the yearlong process of joining the Catholic Church, is most effective when laypeople and priests work together and when the learning process ...

A program, The Order of Christian Initiation of Adults, formerly named The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA), will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 4, at St. Catherine of Siena Catholic ...

As Lent begins, we approach the conclusion of the season of conversions in the U.S. Catholic Church. Parishes began the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults, formerly known as RCIA (or the Rite of ...