Author Archives: Church Mouse

Several months ago the community wrote to a selection of cardinals in the Vatican in an attempt to inform them about the appalling behaviour of the Neocats in Redfern. There was an infinitesimally small hope, but no delusion, that the letters might have had some influence on the recent Vatican review of The Way’s status.

Each letter was copied to the Australian Apostolic Nuncio, the Most Reverend Ambrose de Paoli, and finished with the following postscript:

• Please visit our website, https://church-mouse.net for extensive supporting documentation. The findings of the Tribunal of the Catholic Church of NSW and the … Continue reading →
  

It would appear that the Redfern Neocats have started recruiting in earnest. Just how this is meant to be compatible or consistent with the Archdiocese’s assurances that St Vincent’s is not a Neocatechumenate parish remains to be seen.

About 2 weeks ago posters and cards were distributed around parts of Redfern, and a small band of self-styled Neocat troubadours, led by a guitar strumming parish priest, processed through the streets, luring the odd unsuspecting local (and quite a few more of the less naïve who were simply interested in a free feed) to a barbecue in Redfern park to launch … Continue reading →

In this morning’s Sydney Morning Herald Religious Affairs Writer Linda Morris writes:

The head of Sydney’s Catholics has lashed out at an inner-city parish for treating church like an unruly political branch meeting.

Archbishop George Pell has accused the parishioners of St Vincent’s Catholic Church in Redfern of "sad and shameful attitudes" and mounting a "program of intimidation, harassment and disturbance" on holy occasions.

But parishioners say Cardinal Pell has appointed conservative priests insistent on "imposing an alien and hostile form of religion and liturgical worship" and has ignored their pleas to intervene.

Parishioners have taken their … Continue reading →

Back in June of last year Sister Dom wrote to the Cardinal about the unacceptable behaviour of the clergy of the Neocatechumenal Way that he had appointed to the parish of St Vincent’s Redfern. She received the following response:

Sister Dom has only recently replied to the good Cardinal with this letter:

18th May 2007

Your Eminence

I was deeply offended by your response to my letter dated the 15th June regarding the Neo-Catechumenate Priests of St Vincent’s. As a Vicar of Christ, … Continue reading →

Last Sunday there was a brief exchange between Marnie and the new pp, Mendes, after Mass. She suggested that now that there was a new order in place there might be an opportunity to start afresh (the Church Mouse’s words, not Marnie’s). His curt response, before turning his back on her and rushing off, was something to the effect that there would be no dialogue until the Community “showed respect for the Eucharist”.

The ongoing abuse of the Eucharist by these Neocat priests is a soul-destroying business. They use their control of its distribution virtually as a weapon against the … Continue reading →