PAGE VIEW UPDATE

 Nearly 600,000, and we aren't halfway through the month yet.

Most viewed post for last 30 days:

THE SHAM AND THE SCAM OF THE NEOCAT'S RMS - WORLDWIDE

By Tim Rohr

A very informed frequent commenter, otherwise known as "Rodney," left the following information via a comment. I am posting the comment here because it deserves its own post. Rodney's observations correlate with everything we have seen and experienced firsthand in Guam since the mid-1990s.

Rodney's comment:

The Redemptoris Mater Seminary (RMC) is a pipeline designed by the Neocatechumenal Way (NCW) leadership in connivance with certain bishops to control the personal lives of NCW priests for their own ends.

1. Isolation and Strategic Incardination

• Foreign Recruitment: Most seminarians entering the RMC are brought from outside the host country. They are entirely unfamiliar with the local culture, language, and social structures.

• Transitional Incardination: These foreign seminarians are ordained and incardinated by a local bishop. However, immediately after ordination, they are dispatched to entirely different countries for ministry.

• Untraceable Clergy: The whereabouts of these priests are frequently shrouded in mystery. Their names are often missing from official diocesan clergy directories. When they are listed, they are falsely recorded as serving at the local RMC, despite physically residing and working in another country.

2. Canonical Violations and Parallel Authority

• Bypassing Itinerancy Laws: Canon law strictly prohibits vagrant or itinerant clergy. The NCW circumvents this by legally binding a priest to one foreign diocese while moving them globally at the whim of the movement's leadership.

• Neglected Canonical Contracts: Under Canon law, when a diocesan priest is sent to serve in another diocese, the sending bishop must issue a formal written agreement (scriptum) to the receiving bishop detailing the contract terms. Evidence suggests this mandatory requirement is routinely ignored for NCW priests.

• The Dual Allegiance Conflict: NCW priests face a severe conflict of interest. While Canon 273 demands strict reverence and obedience to their Ordinary (the local bishop), these priests are functionally ruled by lay catechists and NCW itinerants.

• Infringement on Scrutinies: The NCW operates as a parallel power structure—a "church within a church." Lay catechists frequently exercise vetting power over a seminarian’s readiness for Holy Orders. This directly infringes upon Canon 241, which reserves the right of scrutiny exclusively to seminary rectors and bishops.

3. Deficient Formation and Systemic Vulnerability

• Segregated Training: By isolating seminarians within specialized NCW communities instead of integrating them into the broader diocesan presbyterate, the system breaches Canon 245. This canon mandates that seminary formation must prepare men for the common pastoral life of the local church.

• Lack of Awareness: Because these men do not attend standard diocesan seminaries, many remain completely unaware of universal canonical norms and their personal rights as rights-bearing clergy.

4. Financial and Psychological Exploitation

• Economic Dependency: NCW priests working abroad are left entirely at the mercy of lay catechists. They receive NO standard Mass stipends or the mandatory monthly sustenance allowance guaranteed to diocesan priests.

• Abuse of Public Confession: Priests who do become aware of these structural abuses are often too terrified to leave or report the matter. The NCW practice of public scrutiny and public confession means their personal sins and vulnerabilities are known to the community, leaving them highly susceptible to psychological pressure and blackmail.

• Episcopal Abdication: By participating in this system, local bishops effectively wash their hands of their administrative, spiritual, and financial responsibilities toward their diocesan priests, abandoning them to an unaccountable lay-led structure.

5. Institutional Compromise at the Vatican

• Systemic Oversight Failure: The Dicastery for the Clergy is fully aware of these global operational patterns due to the sheer volume of RMCs worldwide.

• A Blind Eye: By refusing to intervene or investigate these serious canonical delicts and clerical abuses, officials within the Vatican administrative apparatus have effectively surrendered their duties as institutional watchdogs, siding with the system rather than protecting vulnerable priests.

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Most of what Rodney says was documented in a 2016 Visitation Report to our own RMS.

NCW PROBLEMS IN NEW MEXICO

...and no surprise, the bishop is a Neocat from Malta. 

Neocatechumenal Way faces controversy in Catholic dioceses

The implementation of the Neocatechumenal Way is at the heart of a growing division in the Diocese of Las Cruces and linked to the removal of a priest from a Basilica in Mesilla.

Amidst suspicion and rumors that the integration of the Neocatechumenal Way is changing the traditional practices of the Roman Catholic faith locally, parishioners are asking what exactly it is and what it means for the Diocese of Las Cruces.

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The last part of the article is about similar problems in Guam

TWO DOCTRINAL DISTORTIONS OF THE NEOCATECHUMENAL WAY

By Tim Rohr

This is an excerpt of a presentation Chuck White recently gave to the Voice of the Laity in Las Cruces, New Mexico.  Here, Chuck presents two examples of the Neocatechumenal Way's problematic teaching. 

The full presentation may be viewed at Understanding the Neocatechumenal Way

CANONIZATIONS FOR KIKO AND CARMEN? DEVIL'S ADVOCATES WELCOME!

By Tim Rohr

It's been a while since JW broke ONE MILLION pageviews in a single month, but that's what happened in May.

 Of course, last month, April, wasn't too shabby either, with nearly 700,000 views. And for the last several months, JW has been registering close to 500,000 views. 

In case you're wondering what people are looking for or looking at. Here are the most viewed posts for the last 30 days:

The 2014 post about the removal of Msgr. James, as Rector of the Cathedral, is normally in the top ten every month. However, this is the first time this month's top story is the top story, even though it's a post from 11 years ago.

The only thing that I can think of that's driving this sort of traffic is the frantic Neocat push to get Carmen Hernandez canonized. Story here. 

It's easy to assume that the push is coming from Kiko himself, who, no doubt, is desirous of being similarly canonized, and quickly, upon his passing.

Such canonizations would seal the future for the Neocatechumenal Way as a major force in the Church for a very long time, as if it isn't already. 

But why would potential canonizations for either Carmen or Kiko be drawing such viewership to JW, especially since JW hasn't been exactly complimentary to them?

Well, that's probably exactly why. All canonization processes have a "devil's advocate," someone specifically tasked with uncovering dirt and challenging the canonization. 

And, as probably nowhere else in the world, the dirty inner workings of the thing that Kiko and Carmen created have been exposed here in Guam, the most significant of which is their devious protection and continued hiding of an archbishop found guilty of molesting minors by the Vatican itself.