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Sunday, 03 September 2006

Some links to material on the Neocats:

The Neocatechumenate Movement – a brief summary of the Way and its history.
The Neocatechumenal Way - Background – By Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney - George Pell's line.
What is the Neocatechumenal Way – with an introduction by Kiko and Carmen.

Church Mouse has found that most of the sites offering support to the Way have very little to say, or simply regurgitate a superficial party line. The following sites offer most of what you will find out there.

A good example of a very bad website:

NCW_OZ - Neo-catechumenal way - AUSTRALIA

In the interests of providing a balanced view:

Church Mouse suggests the following links to material from people who have, in the main, had difficulties with the Way. They are presented in no particular order.

Neo-catechumenate Review pages, prepared by PASCH - Parishioners Against a Secret Church a group from the Diocese of Clifton, England
NEOCATECHUMENAL MOVEMENT-A VOLCANO OF ERRORS
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL MECHANISM OF MENTAL CONDITIONING INSIDE THE NEOCATECHUMENATE COMMUNITY
The psychological mechanisms of mental conditioning inside the ... (an alternative to the previous link)
THE NEOCATECHUMENATE Notes transcribed from a videotape of a debate on the Neocatechumenate held in Rome on April 20, 1997
Catholic sect accused of brainwashing
THE NEOCATECHUMENALS - WHO THEY ARE - WHAT THEIR "CREED" IS - WHAT WE SHOULD THINK OF THEM
Christian Order - The Last Trojan Horse? - October 2002
Christian Order - The Liturgy of the Neo-Catechumenal Way - November 1997
CULT FICTION - The Protestant cuckoo in the Catholic nest - or what you see is most definitely not what you get (This link appears to be dead. )The author points to some failures of orthodoxy of the Way but would probably also consider St Vincent's to be heretical. The site itself is "dedicated to undoing the damage done by the non-dogmatic Catholicism, horizontal in mentality and concerned chiefly to participate with others in the building of the human city which, in the last thirty years in the countries of the North Atlantic civilization, has proved such an unmitigated disaster for the Church." One suspects the author might consider Cardinal Pell to be a wishy-washy liberal modernist. - Thanks, Justin W. for your comments

Neocatechumenal Ways and Means - Amy Welborn's weblog
Catholic 'Born-Agains' – or Moonies? - Irish Elk weblog archive
VICTIM'S STORY & AN ELITE OF THE DAMNED
The Pope's Armada - reviews of Gordon Urquhart's book
The Italian website www.chiesa has numerous articles (many with English translations) on the Neocats; take a look at this list.
The secret writings of Kiko Arguello and Carmen Hernandez:
The Neo-Catechumenal Way, a heresy encouraged by Rome
Excerpts of SECRET INSTRUCTIONS and NEOCATECHUMENAL CATECHESIS or here
The next few suffer from being badly translated and/or poorly presented
Introduction - Heresies in the Neocatechumenal Way - by Fr Enrico Zoffoli
Links page from French website www.psychologue-clinicien.com

A few other references:

New home for new breed of priest Catholic Weekly
A fortified church, at too high a price SMH
The Neocatechumenal Way - Background Archdiocese of Sydney
Neocatechumenal Way setting up its second Australian seminary AD2000
Paul Collins resigns priesthood amid Vatican probe
The South Sydney Herald celebrating the lives of the diverse people of South Sydney
News from Sandro Magister in Rome at www.chiesa
Wikipedia entry: Neocatechumenal Way (This page may change at any time - it can be edited by anyone with internet access. The following should last for at least a year: static version)

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