By Rodney
In response to LUIS CAMACHO: "IF...I MESS UP..."
During their seminary years, NCW candidates are subjected to "scrutinies"—essentially a spiritual strip-search where lay catechists happily trample right over Canon Law’s strict protection of the internal forum. Candidates are conditioned through public confessions, emotional coercion, and a total surrender of personal boundaries. By the time they are ordained, their psychological autonomy hasn't just been stunted; it's been dismantled and replaced with absolute subservience to Kiko’s itinerary.
Then comes the real mind-bender: the cognitive dissonance. Once assigned to a parish, these men are forced to play a high-stakes game of ecclesiastical Jekyll and Hyde. Upstairs in the main church, they must cosplay as orthodox diocesan priests, dutifully nodding to Canon Law and the Catechism. But downstairs in the parish basement on Saturday nights, the mask comes off. They revert to being Kiko’s enforcers, presiding over a parallel church with its own proprietary theology, bizarre liturgical aesthetics, and unquestioned loyalty to the movement's founders.
You cannot force a human psyche to endure years of coercive emotional surveillance and then demand they live a permanent double life without the mental wheels coming off. This massive, unbridgeable gap between the official Church teachings they studied and the sectarian reality of their daily ministry exacts a severe, fracturing toll on their mental health.
You are ultimately left with emotionally compromised, psychologically fractured men wielding immense spiritual authority, shielded by a powerful internal lobby ready to sweep their inevitable psychological unraveling under the rug. Therefore, NCW priests are a danger to the parishioners and even to the NCW families themselves.
Nobody (yet) has said it better. This is exactly what I saw since the beginning. And I was there at the beginning.
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ReplyDeleteTim? IMO it will be essential reading for all Catholics esp bishops & priests!
Have you any experience of the role of female catechists in the NCW. From what I hear St Paul would be turning in his grave. Maybe it is a reflection of the rise of feminism in society! St Paul must have realised that some women go beyond all
normal bounds in their self promotion!
Is the NCW peculiar in this regard? Are all modern movements infested with proud arrogant strident women? I have met some wonderful humble ladies in the NCW but without exception they all believe that there is only one WAY!
Thanks for the encouragement. It could be soon. It could be a while yet. I keep coming across things I had forgotten or got buried in the mountain of docs. Good thing I never deleted anything. The real challenge - after organizing the data - is writing a book that will mean something far beyond just an account of the evil deeds in the Archdiocese of Agana. Catholic communities around the world are fighting similar battles - and I believe they all can learn from what we did here.
DeleteRe female catechists in the NCW, no, no direct experience. Generally, though, I am on record opposing lay catechists of every stripe. I believe it is the duty of pastors to catechize, not well-meaning or even educated lay people. And it is the duty, the first duty, of parents to catechize their own children, not send them off to a Catholic "Sunday School."
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