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The Neocatechumenal Way - BackgroundBy CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF SYDNEY The founders of the Neocatechumenal Way are Spaniards Kiko Arguello and Carmen Hernandez. Kiko is a distinguished artist, a former pupil of Picasso. Once an atheist, he had a conversion experience and moved to live in the slums. They began forming christian communities in parishes in about 1965 when the slum dwellers of Palomeras Altas, in Madrid, asked Kiko and Carmen who were living among them to announce to them the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This experience of evangelization gradually spread throughout the Archdiocese of Madrid and other dioceses. In the last thirty years the Neocatechumenal Way has spread to more than 105 countries and more than 860 parishes. Missionaries from the Neocatechumenal Way came to Australia in 1977. The Way is now present in nine dioceses, namely Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Wollongong, Parramatta, Brisbane, Darwin, Broome and Perth. There are about 50 communities across Australia. After experiencing conversion through the Neocatechumenal Way, failing marriages have been rebuilt, young people have met and married, illiterate people have gone back to school in order to read Scripture, young people have stopped abusing themselves with drugs and alcohol, and a number of young men have entered diocesan missionary seminaries and gone on to be ordained. Fr Gerry Prindiville, announced as the new Parish Priest of St Vincents, Redfern, is a diocesan priest who received his formation through the Neocatechumenal Way. Ministry to Aboriginal people by the Neocatechumenal Way is currently being conducted in the dioceses of Broome (Cathedral parish) and Darwin (Humpty Doo and St Mary’s Cathedral parishes). The Way is also present in the Perth archdiocese (Mirabooka and several other parishes). In Sydney the Way is present in four parishes: Leichhardt, Lane Cove, Seven Hills and Baulkham Hills. |
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