I’ve never heard of this. What is their “way”? How is it divisive?
There are some links on the articles website.
I will see if I can find a link to the verbal “smack down” then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger gave them regarding their Liturgical hokey pokey, happy clappy, kumbaya Liturgies.
They should be called the Neo-Heretical Way if you ask me.
http://charismatic-heresy.blogspot.com/2007/02/neocatechumenal-way.html
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=2369
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ronald_haynes/neocat1.htm
http://www.cfnews.org/neocat06.htm
http://eraofpeace.tripod.com/nchintro.html
Can’t say I’ve read about them extensively, but they are said to create a parish within a parish. Sect mentality. Also many bishops have problems with the way they celebrate the liturgy. Much more I do not know.
A good article, if you know nothing about this group.
Excerpts:
1)In the Neocatechumenal Way, communion is taken while seated around a large square table, with a large loaf of bread that is divided among the participants and wine that is passes from hand to hand and is taken in large swallows. But communion is not the only area in which there is a departure from the traditional liturgy. There are significant innovations in other parts of the Mass. For example, the readings from the liturgy of the Word are commented upon by the catechists of the group, who make lengthy “admonitions” followed by “resonances” from many of those present. The priest’s homily is hardly distinguished, or not distinguished at all, from the rest of the comments.
2) The Neocatechumenals do not celebrate their Masses on Sunday, but on Saturday evening, in small groups and separate from the parish communities to which they belong. Each Neocatechumenal group corresponds to a different stage of the Way, so each group of 20-30 persons has its own Mass. If there are ten groups of Neocatechumenals in a parish, there will be ten different Masses on Saturday evening, in ten separate locations.