Ten Tips for Welcoming New Catholics

Msgr. Richard Hilgartner, executive director of the Secretariat of Divine Worship at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), offers ways parishioners can support the faith journeys of those in the catechumenate/RCIA process. This formation process through which adults become members of the Catholic Church is ""an apprenticeship of the entire Christian life"" (General Directory for Catechesis, #67). This apprenticeship is most fruitful when the parish community does its part to model what it means to be Catholic Christians. Basic information about the RCIA is included for those who are unfamiliar with the process and its rites and stages.