Reposting from a follower in Australia:
Comment by Felicity
His comments show the Popes grave concern about Kiko Arguello and Nc catechists using coercive control , inducing guilt and fear to control others , telling them to obey Nc leaders and not respecting a persons privacy, internal forum or their conscience.Pope Leo on 19/1/26 at an audience with Kiko Arguello and 1000 Neocatechumenal way members responded to the many complaints about the Neocatechumenal way.
The Neocatechumenal way often isolate themselves having separate masses and meetings each week ONLY for Nc members as if they are a parallel church. Pope Leo reminds and reprimands them as previous popes have done - Kiko was at the private papal audience with Pope Leo and 1000 Neocatechumenal members - these criticisms and mandates by Pope Leo were directed specifically at the Neocatechumenal WayKiko Argüello and Nc leaders send people including babies & children to dangerous places including war zones and encourages them to die as a martyr eg China , PNG , Ukraine . Sudan , Nigeria . The pope was warning them of the risks. They are on notice now and if they disobey then the Pope has options to take the matter further
- the tithe - unapproved ,
- request to obey Catechists- unapproved
- spiritual marriage - unapproved
- Ketubah covenant in Israel - unapproved
- milk and honey ceremony - unapproved
- After receiving the white garment
- - Kiko emphases “ renounce the goods” “ go on mission “ and misuses a bible quote about
- “Common goods “to insist you share all your money with Nc- unapproved
19/1/25 Pope Leo told the members of the Neocatechumenal Way that they must live their spirituality “without ever isolating yourselves from the rest of the ecclesial body” and to “go forward in joy and humility, without closing yourselves off, as builders and witnesses of communion.”
You do a great amount of good, but its goal is to allow people to know Christ, while always respecting the life path and conscience of each individual,” Pope Leo said. The proclamation of the Gospel, catechesis, and the various forms of pastoral activity must always be free from forms of coercion, rigidity, and moralism, so that they do not generate feelings of guilt and fear rather than interior liberation,” he said.
The pope’s words on personal freedom echoed similar remarks by Pope Francis, who, in 2014, warned the ecclesial reality against the dangers of pressuring its members and to respect their choice “to seek, outside the Way, other forms of Christian life that may help him or her to grow in their answer to the Lord’s response.”
The pope also expressed his gratitude to the many families in mission who left behind “the securities of ordinary life” and set out on mission, sometimes in dangerous areas, “with the sole desire of proclaiming the Gospel and witnessing to God’s love.”
The pope also told members of the Neocatechumenal Way that carrying out the mission to evangelize also requires interior vigilance and wise critical capacity to discern certain risks
There is so much invasion of privacy , coercion , secrecy, control by the Neocatechumenal Way. They often keep secrets from the local bishops and a Neocatechumenal priest told me that they won’t show the bishop or anyone in the parish what they do with all the money and belongings they collect from people . The “tenth” or “tithe” to lay catechists and request to “ obey lay catechists and Kiko Arguello has never been approved by the Vatican. It’s not in the statutes. At the “spiritual marriage ceremony “ and “Ketubah “ covenant in Israel the catechists insist lifelong on a huge financial commitment and obedience to Kiko Arguello and the catechists. The communities are still being sent to Israel for pilgrimages despite the war.
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Pope Leo 19/1/26 meeting 1000 members of Neocatechumenal Way
Posted by Felicity
"The validity of the Masses celebrated by the NCW is compromised by the use of illicit matter for the host. While Canon Law mandates pure wheat, these large, pizza-sized hosts reportedly rely on all-purpose flour to maintain a soft texture. If pure wheat is used for making the host, it would become hard and it would be very difficult to break and distribute it. By substituting required ingredients for physical convenience, the Mass of the NCW violate liturgical norms, resulting in an invalid Sacrament under the directives of Kiko.
ReplyDeleteThe Neocatechumenal leaders will likely remove all the concerns and criticisms Pope Leo expressed - they gave a filtered version of only positive comments on their website ignoring Pope Leo’s concern about techniques of coercion , guilt, fear and not respecting conscience or privacy. Why do fanatics such as Kiko try to send mission families to dangerous places in China , Sudan, Rwanda , PNG , Ukraine telling the bishops no need to supports the mission families - the Community of origin who have 20-30 people will support them financially! What a huge burden and risk to put on these poor families who Kiko moves around like “pawns on a chess board” deciding when and where they go. I read Kerygma and he explained he paid the one way ticket to China for the mission families then asked them to beg or beg from their Community of origin for whatever they needed . Kiko is sent a lot of money through the catechists and paid for hundreds of rabbis to come all expenses paid to stay at Domus Galilae so he could give speeches to Bishops & Rabbis about the Neocatechumenal way - there is megalomania and narcissism . But Kiko Arguello lacks support or empathy for NC mission families struggling to survive in Taiwan , Haiti and other dangerous places.
ReplyDeleteFamilies should NOT be missionaries (in the classical sense of the word) anyway. A couples avowed "state in life" and their first duty before God is to their children and to each other. This is their "mission." Purposely placing a child or spouse in harm's way is wrong.
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