Tony Blair set “to pope”?
November 25, 2007
It sounds like the long-expected Tony’s trans-Tiber trip is imminent. Interesting.
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I want to know what his RCIA process was like.
Ugh.
There is no such thing as an RCIA process!
For that matter, the very term represented by RCIA—”Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults”—is incredibly misleading. After all, there is not only one rite, but several: the Rite of Election, the Scrutinies, etc. OCIA—Order of Christian Initiation for Adults—would be far more apt.
Matters of terminology aside, whatever “process” Mr. Blair went through in preparation for his reception into full communion with the Catholic Church has nothing to do with the RCIA. Mr. Blair is already a baptized Christian. He has already been initiated into the Christian Faith. There are a host of theological reasons for not lumping candidates for full communion together with catechumens. Just because this has been the practice since the restoration of the catechumenate (in the United States, at least) doesn’t make it right.
Welcome, brother Tony!
I still want to know what his RCIA process was like.
From the coverage I’ve seen in the Telegraph, he took instructions privately from two priests, one an RAF chaplain and the other the priest-secretary to the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster. So you’ll probably just have to keep wondering.
I’m not into “private” initiation. The chaplain also raises my antennae. I wonder if Blair’s participation in war crimes ever entered the conversation.