Instruction during RCIA should be explicit

Explicit instruction means telling inquirers what they need to know directly. I would like to see: less guided discovery (expecting learners to figure things out on their own), no hazing as rite of passage (humiliating or traumatizing people as a test of capacity to suffer or prove loyalty), no paranoia-inducing manufactured coincidences (monitoring the inquirer’s whereabouts and then dropping a comment to creep us out), less ambiguity about the initiation process itself (staff shouldn’t lord it over inquirers by withholding information; people need information about the process, the steps, the expectations, how catechumens are judged and evaluated earlier rather than later), no screening or surveiling anyone or using illegal means to check out new people. Background checks should be explicit and legal; the