13 Facts About Neocatechumenal Way

Neocatechumenal Way, known as the Neocatechumenate, or NCW is an association of the Christian faithful within the Catholic Church.

Neocatechumenal Way was joined by Carmen Hernandez, who linked the community to the theological and liturgical zeitgeist surrounding the Second Vatican Council, and won the support of the archbishop of Madrid Casimiro Morcillo Gonzalez, who had been a relator during sessions of the Council.

The Neocatechumenal Way announced on 13 February 2018 that Maria Ascension Romero had been chosen to join the leadership team.

The Neocatechumenal Way scrutinies are public confessions that Neocatechumens must make to their communities.

In March 2008 the Neocatechumenal Way met with nine cardinals and 160 European bishops at the Domus Galilaeae International Center on the Mount of Beatitudes in Galilee.

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In March 2019, the Neochatecumenal Neocatechumenal Way acquired the property of a 5173-square-meter part of the Mount of Olives at Jerusalem, in which they planned to build up a new international center named Domus Jerusalem.

In March 2000, the Neocatechumenal Way opened its Domus Galilaeae formation center on the slopes of the Mount of Beatitudes in Israel.

In February 2007, bishops of the Holy Land addressed a letter in which they ask to the Neocatechumenal Way "to take place in the heart of the parish in which you announce the Word of God, avoiding to form a separated group", to root believers "in the parishes and in the liturgical traditions in which they have lived for generations", and that all Eucharistic celebrations would be presided by the parish priest.

Chacour stated in his message that he searched for "someone or some community to preach the Good News to my parishioners" as an answer to proselytism of the sects, and that the Neocatechumenal Way is an answer.

Statutes describe the nature of the Neocatechumenal Way and regulate its charism and specific tasks within the Church.

The Neocatechumenal Way is thus closely governed by an ecclesiastical authority, performs entrusted functions "in the name of the church, " and has no material goods of its own.

Neocatechumenal Way has encountered resistance and criticism from both clergy and theologians.

In some places such as China and the Middle East, local Catholics have complained that missionaries of the Neocatechumenal Way have forced European songs, rituals and prayers on them, without inculturation.