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Neo-catechumenate Way
Topic Started: Friday, 9. May 2008, 20:11 (1,724 Views)
Rose of York
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  ‘Divisive’ seminary to be shut

Robert Mickens

A NEO-CATECHUMENATE seminary in Japan is to close after the country's bishops convinced Vatican officials that the movement was causing divisions in the Church by its way of thinking and in its attitude towards Japanese culture. Four senior Japanese bishops, including the president and vice president of the national episcopal conference, met for nearly an hour on 25 April with Pope Benedict XVI, according to a recent Union of Catholic Asian News report. It was the third time in five months that they were in Rome to express serious concerns over the presence of the Neo-Catechumenal Way in their country.


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Francis Xavier Osamu Mizobe, the Bishop of Takamatsu, encountered difficulties with the "Neo-Cats" four years ago when he was appointed head of the diocese. He and other bishops raised their concerns directly to the Pope and other Vatican officials last December when they came to Rome for their five-yearly ad limina visits. "In the small Catholic Church of Japan, the powerful sect-like activity of Way members is divisive and confrontational. It has caused division and strife in the Church," said Archbishop Peter Takeo Okada of Tokyo, the bishops' conference president, during his group address to the Pope.


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Bishop Mizobe appealed twice, to Vatican officials, to have that seminary closed. Finally, a group of high ranking Japanese bishops met privately with Pope Benedict.

When are we going to see an end to all these divisions in the Church? I read praise for traditionalist seminaries. Now a neo-catechumenate seminary has been ordered to close.

I think God that my parish still has a priest, just a plain ordinary priest. The idea of some priests specialising in ministering mainly to one group who share their particular preference of style of worship is, in my opinion, very worrying.
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O those old neo-cats! :lol:

So last century!

Trad is the Fad now!

:D

Gloria!

CARLO
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PJD

Trad is the Fad now!

and/or Ortho

PJD
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Fortunatus

Score one for common sense and mainstream Catholicism!
:wh:
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Some may remember a few years back that there was a serious dispute within Bristol caused by some complaints that a particular Parish in that City had been taken over by the Neo-Cats and that those not willing to join up with the Neo-Cats had been forced out of the parish. A lot of accusations flew about that the Neo-Cats were a 'cult' and a 'sect'.

There was a big Hoo Hah, the Bishop got involved and the Neo-Cats had to eat some humble Pie for a while.

Anyone know where the situation stands now?

William
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william of bow
May 11 2008, 09:35 PM
Some may remember a few years back that there was a serious dispute within Bristol caused by some complaints that a particular Parish in that City had been taken over by the Neo-Cats and that those not willing to join up with the Neo-Cats had been forced out of the parish. A lot of accusations flew about that the Neo-Cats were a 'cult' and a 'sect'.

There was a big Hoo Hah, the Bishop got involved and the Neo-Cats had to eat some humble Pie for a while.

Anyone know where the situation stands now?

William

I think the neo-cats are simply off the radar these days.

Neo-cat = Old hat

Any recent sightings of neo-cats in the UK from anyone?


Pax


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william of bow
May 11 2008, 10:35 PM
There was a big Hoo Hah, the Bishop got involved and the Neo-Cats had to eat some humble Pie for a while.

Anyone know where the situation stands now?

William

William, this may help, but it is only fair to state that the report is not on an official site owned by the hierarchy so I cannot say whether or not it is genuine.

DIOCESE OF CLIFTON - Report into the presence and activities of the Neo-Catechumenal Way in the Diocese of Clifton. November 1996
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william of bow
May 11 2008, 10:35 PM
Some may remember a few years back that there was a serious dispute within Bristol caused by some complaints that a particular Parish in that City had been taken over by the Neo-Cats and that those not willing to join up with the Neo-Cats had been forced out of the parish. A lot of accusations flew about that the Neo-Cats were a 'cult' and a 'sect'.

There was a big Hoo Hah, the Bishop got involved and the Neo-Cats had to eat some humble Pie for a while.

Anyone know where the situation stands now?

William

I don't know which Parish you're talking about William, but the last time I went to an EF Mass in our Diocese I was one of a congregation of 16 and in quite a large Church too :( ...

Read into that what you will...

Shame really because I'd like to attend an EF Mass about once a month or every couple of months but they are really quite few and far between in our Diocese.

I'm fine with the Ordinary Form undertaken with due respect. I feel on balance it will remain the main Mass I go to.
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Sorry William - I'm in the Diocese of Clifton - just to clarify that I was responding logically to your post!!

It looks like Rose found it anyway.

I've never been to that Parish. It would be a bit of a drive on a Sunday...
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william of bow
May 11 2008, 10:35 PM
Some may remember a few years back that there was a serious dispute within Bristol caused by some complaints that a particular Parish in that City had been taken over by the Neo-Cats and that those not willing to join up with the Neo-Cats had been forced out of the parish. A lot of accusations flew about that the Neo-Cats were a 'cult' and a 'sect'.

There was a big Hoo Hah, the Bishop got involved and the Neo-Cats had to eat some humble Pie for a while.

Anyone know where the situation stands now?

William

Three parishes were affected:

St Nicholas of Tolentino in Bristol,
St Peter in Gloucester
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Sacred Hearts at Chariton Kings in Cheltenham.
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Sorry Rose

I'd only read St Peter in Gloucester.

Mind you, the other two would be quite a drive for me too!!
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Gerard

I seem to remember JPII praising the neocats for the number of priests produced from within their ranks.

The catholic church is catholic - there is room for the neocats, efs, opus deis, ccrs, franciscans, dominicans, carthusians, celts, clares, carmelites and everyone else.

Gerry
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The old memory cells seem to be working well. I found this from 2004:

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Pope Thanks Neocatechumenal Way for Vocations It Inspires


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VATICAN CITY, MARCH 18, 2004 (Zenit.org).- John Paul II thanked the communities of the Neocatechumenal Way for the large number of priestly vocations they inspire, especially in the Rome Diocese.

The Pope expressed these sentiments today when he met in the Vatican with the community of the Redemptoris Mater diocesan seminary of Rome. The seminary forms candidates from communities of the Neocatechumenal Way, present in more than 90 Roman parishes.

Vatican Radio said that 196 priests have been ordained from this seminary since its foundation 16 years ago. At the same time, it has been a model for the more than 50 Redemptoris Mater diocesan or missionary seminaries worldwide, in which 1,500 seminarians are being formed, and from which more than 1,000 priests have been ordained.


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"The institutional and charismatic aspects are quasi coessential to the Church's constitution" (Pope John Paul II, 1998).
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With time, such novelties grind to a halt......eventually!

Deo Gratias!

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