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:
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)