Over several years of implementing the catechumenate, ministers of Christian initiation in North America have observed that the majority of people coming to the Catholic Church have been validly baptized in other Churches. the Bishops of Canada and the United States, recognizing that fact, included in the editions of the Rite of christian Initiation of Adult for their countries the Rite of Reception of Baptized Christians into the Full Communion of the Catholic Church, a new ritual developed, after the Second Vatican Council.

  Where did this rite come from? What is its History? Why was such a new rite needed? In this book, Dale J.Sieverding offers a liturgical study of the ritual and the history of its development in the Western tradition.