Msgr.
Schneider: “The (Neocatecumenal) Way is a Trojan Horse in the
Church
Msgr.
Athanasius Schneider, during an interview on March 6, 2016 (the
complete text can be found at:
http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2016/04/exclusive-interview-with-bishop.html),
also spoke about the Neocatecumenal Way.
Neocathecumenal
Way is a Protestant-Jewish community
MR.
FÜLEP: While the tradition is
persecuted, there are some new modern movements which are highly
supported. One of them is the community of Kiko. What is your opinion
about the Neocatechumenal Way?[11]
His
Excellency Bishop Schneider: This is a very complex and sad
phenomenon. To speak openly: It is a Trojan horse in the Church. I
know them very well because I was an Episcopal delegate for them for
several years in Kazakhstan in Karaganda. And I assisted their Masses
and meetings and I read the writings of Kiko, their founder, so I
know them well. When I speak openly without diplomacy, I have to
state: The Neocathecumenate is a Protestant-Jewish[12] community
inside the Church with a Catholic decoration only. The
most dangerous aspect is regarding the Eucharist,
because the Eucharist is the heart of the Church. When the heart is
in a bad way, the whole body is in a bad way. For the
Neocatechumenate, the Eucharist is primarily a fraternal banquet.
This is a Protestant, a typically Lutheran attitude.[13] They
reject the idea and the teaching of the Eucharist as a true
sacrifice. They even hold that the
traditional teaching of, and belief in, the Eucharist as a sacrifice
is not Christian but pagan.[14] This is completely absurd, this is
typically Lutheran, Protestant. During
their liturgies of the Eucharist they treat the Most Holy Sacrament
in such a banal manner, that it sometimes becomes horrible.[15]
They sit while receiving Holy Communion, and then they lose the
fragments because they do not take care of them, and after Communion
they dance instead of praying and adoring Jesus in silence. This is
really worldly and pagan, naturalistic.
MR.
FÜLEP: The problem may be not
just practical…
His
Excellency Bishop Schneider: The second
danger is their IDEOLOGY. The main idea
of the Neocathecumenate according their founder Kiko Argüello is the
following: the Church had an ideal life only until Constantine in the
4th century, only this was effectively the real Church. And with
Constantine the Church started to degenerate: doctrinal degeneration,
liturgical and moral degeneration.[16] And the Church reached the
rock bottom of this degeneration of doctrine and liturgy with the
decrees of the Council of Trent. However,
contrary to his opinion, the opposite is true:
this was one of the highlights of the history of the Church because
of the clarity of doctrine and discipline. According to Kiko, the
dark age of the Church lasted from the 4th century until the Second
Vatican Council. It was only with Vatican Council II that light came
into the Church. This is heresy because
this is to say that the Holy Spirit abandoned the Church.
And this is really sectarian and very much in line with Martin
Luther, who said that until him the Church had been in darkness and
it was only through him that there was light in the Church. The
position of Kiko is fundamentally the same only that Kiko postulates
the dark time of the Church from Constantine to Vatican II. So they
misinterpret the Second Vatican Council. They say that they are
apostles of Vatican II. Thus they justify all their heretical
practices and teachings with Vatican II. This is a grave abuse.
MR.
FÜLEP: How could this community
be officially admitted by the Church?
His
Excellency Bishop Schneider: This is another tragedy. They
established a powerful lobby in the Vatican at least thirty years
ago. And there is another deception: at
many events they present very many fruits of conversion and many
vocations to the bishops. A lot of bishops are blinded by the fruits,
and they don’t see the errors, and don’t examine them. They have
large families, they have a lot of children, and they have a high
moral standard in family life. This is, of course, a good result.
However, there is also a kind of exaggerated behaviour to press the
families to get a maximum number of children. This is not healthy.
And they say, we are accepting Humanae Vitae,[17] and this is, of
course, good. But in the end this is an illusion, because there are
also quite a lot of Protestant groups today in the world with a high
moral standard, who also have a great number of children, and who
also go and protest against the gender ideology, homosexuality, and
who also accept Humanae Vitae. But, for me, this is not a decisive
criterion of truth! There are also a lot of Protestant communities
who convert a lot of sinners, people who lived with addictions such
as alcoholism and drugs. So the fruit of
conversions is not a decisive criterion for me
and I will not invite this good Protestant group which converts
sinners and has a lot of children to my diocese to engage in
apostolate. This is the illusion of many bishops, who are blinded by
the so-called fruits.
MR.
FÜLEP: What is the quoin stone
of doctrine?
His
Excellency Bishop Schneider: The doctrine of the Eucharist. This is
the heart. It is an error to look first
at the fruits and ignore or not take care of doctrine and liturgy. I
am sure that there will come the time when the Church objectively
examines this organisation in depth without the pressure of the
lobbies of the Neocathecumenal Way, and their errors in doctrine and
liturgy will truly come out.
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Notes
- of Dániel Fülep
[11]
The Neocatechumenal Way (Neocatechumenate, NCW) is an organization
dedicated to the Christian formation of people. It was formed in
Madrid in 1964 by Kiko Argüello and Carmen Hernández.
[12]
The community mixes the liturgy of the Church with Protestant and
Jewish elements.
[13]
The movement has long wanted to have the Congregation for Divine
Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments approve its liturgical
abuses. Following consultations with the Congregation, it was the
Pontifical Council for the Laity that approved the Catechetical
Directory of the Neocathecumenal Way and the extra-liturgical
practices therein. Therefore this permission applies only to
non-liturgical practices. The decree of 20 January 2012 has nothing
to do with the “liturgical innovations” of the Neocathecumenal
Way, which should promptly be terminated because they are against the
universal rules and practice of the Church.
[14]
The Council of Trent (1545–63) declared as a dogma that, as opposed
to the Protestant view, the sacrifice of the Holy Mass does include a
propitiatory element (DH 1743, 1753). The sacrifice was ordered by
Christ himself. It is not only simple commemoration, glorification or
thanksgiving but a real propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the
dead. The fact, however, that the mass is a real sacrifice isn’t to
say that Christ’s sacrifice must be repeated. The Church does not
turn Christ’s sacrifice into a pagan human sacrifice. The sacrifice
of the Holy Mass is not a repetition of the sacrifice of the Cross
but Christ’s only sacrifice made present under sacramental signs.
In this sense it is “commemoration”, in which the reality of the
sacramental economy itself is present (DH 1740). Christ is the same
high priest in the Holy Mass as on the cross (DH 1743).
[15]
The liturgy of the Neocathecumenal Way does not comply with the
General Instruction of the Roman Missal or the other liturgical rules
but has its own ”liturgical innovations”. The liturgical practice
of the Way is full of abuses: in fact the Vatican has called the
attention of the movement to problems like laity sermons in their
Holy Mass, the faithful dancing during liturgy and standing rather
than kneeling during Eucharistic prayer, receiving Holy Communion
sitting and passing a huge chalice with Christ’s blood in it from
hand to hand. Regulations on church music are completely ignored.
Another problem is that the Way separates the faithful from the
parish and the church: the Sunday Holy Mass, which is full of abuses,
is always celebrated Saturday evening as the "Private Mass” of
the community, usually not in a church but at a profane place, e.g.
in a community room.
[16]
On 13 June 313 Constantine issued the Edict of Milan, ending the
persecution of Christians and acknowledging Christianity as a valid
religion of the Roman Empire. In 315 he terminated crucifixion as a
form of execution and granted all the privileges of pagan religions
to the Church. In 321 Constantine declared Sunday as a holiday. As an
absolute ruler he helped to establish the institutional basis of the
Church throughout the Empire from 324. The establishment of the
institutional structure and the social-political strengthening of the
Church as well as the alliance of throne and altar are considered by
Protestants as the victory of paganism.
[17]
Humanae vitae (Of Human Life) is an encyclical written by Pope Paul
VI and issued on 25 July 1968. Subtitled On the Regulation of Birth,
it re-affirms the orthodox teaching of the Catholic Church regarding
married love, responsible parenthood and the continued rejection of
most forms of birth control.
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One
of the most important goals of Satan in the period of time,
with his very numerous followers in Freemasonry, is to eliminate the
Eucharist in all the public churches in the world, which is referred
to in Sacred Scripture as “the Abomination
of Desolation”.
The
Neocatecumenal Way is contributing a great deal to arrive at this
“HORRIBLE SACRILEGE”!
Writing
about the second coming of Jesus Christ in the second letter to the
Thessalonians, St. Paul tells us: “Let
no one deceive you in any way; for that day will not come, unless
the REBELLION (APOSTASY) COMES FIRST,
and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of perdition, who
opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of
worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming
himself to be God. Do you not remember that when I was still with you
I told you this? And you know what is
restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time.
For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only
he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way.
And then the lawless one will be revealed, and the Lord Jesus will
slay him with the breath of his mouth and destroy him by his
appearing and his coming” (2Thess 2:3-8).
Before
“the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of perdition … only
he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. And
then the lawless one will be revealed…” Above
all what is “RESTRAINING” the “man of lawlessness” is the
presence of Jesus Christ as the Truth
(Jn 14:6) and especially His real presence in the
Most Holy Eucharist of the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass; Satan seeks to trivialize both so as to
deprive us of God’s guidance and His powerful protection and help.
Before the manifestation of the Antichrist, “the continual burnt
offering” (Dan 8:11; 12:11), will be taken away, and the “sacrifice
and offering” will cease (Dan 9:27), which Jesus foretold (Mt
24:15). This sacrilege is the ultimate
“ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION” (Mt
24:15; Mk 13:14; 2Thess 2:3-4; Dan 9:27; 11:31; 12:11)!
The
Second Vatican Council tells us that only the Catholic Church has the
fullness of the means of sanctification, the sacraments, especially
the Eucharist, and the fullness of the truth with the guidance of the
Magisterium of the Church (Lumen Gentium 8). The Truth comes from
God, and not from the Church, and thus no priest, bishop or pope can
change the Truth of Divine Revelation which is well summarized in the
Catechism of the Catholic Church for adults (CCC, ed.
1992). Simply put, this is precisely what
several cardinals are saying in the “Dubia” (November 2016) and
in their book “Remaining in the Truth of
Christ: Marriage and Communion in the Catholic Church” (October
2014). Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI told us: “ONLY
WHAT IS TRUE CAN ULTIMATELY BE PASTORAL”! “What
is true” is that it has always been a
mortal sin to have sex outside of marriage!!!
In a very sly and hidden way, with
beautiful deadly lies presented as if they were the truth, with
hidden deceptions and with half truths, that is, to speak only about
mercy without “Go and sin no more” (Jn 8:11: 5:14), a great
number of highest ranking leaders in the Church are leading the
Church very quickly away from the truth of God, which does not change
with the world; this is what Pope Benedict calls “the dictatorship
of relativism” (“Who Decides The
Truth?”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2014/06/who-decides-truth.html).
This
deception, this lose of the
Eucharist, “the source and summit of
the Christian life” (Vat.
II: LG 11; CCC 1324), is being done slowly
and in such a way that as few Catholics as possible will realize the
lose of our greatest treasure and strength on earth, the real
sacramental presence of Jesus Christ. The
focus of attention has been intentionally shifted
from adoration of God to man as the center of the Liturgy. Even fewer
Catholics know the FOUR CONDITIONS
NECESSARY FOR A VALID MASS. None of
this could happen if the priests and bishops of the Catholic Church
would obey the Liturgical Books of the Catholic Church; Pope John
Paul II and Pope Benedict ordered the founders of the Neocatecumenal
Way to obey the Liturgical Books but they refused obey
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2015/02/the-neocatecumenal-mass.html).
“The
Sacrifice of the Mass renews that which was accomplished by Jesus on
Calvary. By accepting the Protestant
doctrine, people will hold that the Mass is not a sacrifice but
only a sacred meal, that is to say, a
remembrance of that which Jesus did at his Last Supper. And thus, the
celebration of Holy Mass will be suppressed. In this abolition of the
daily Sacrifice consists THE HORRIBLE SACRILEGE
accomplished by the Antichrist, which
will last about three and a half years, namely, one thousand two
hundred and ninety days” (December 31, 1992; “To The Priests Our
Lady’s Beloved Sons”; http://our-lady-priests.blogspot.it/).
Saint
Padre Pio said: "It would be
easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do so without
the HOLY MASS."
This saint also said: “The ROSARY
is the weapon for these times”! Stay close to the Sacraments and
pass as much time as possible praying the
Holy Rosary before the Most Blessed Sacrament while our Eucharistic
Lord is still in the tabernacles of our public churches!
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There
is less prayer than ever before, more
sin than ever before, even worse, indifference as if sin no longer
exists, and so we have given much greater power to “the father of
lies”, Satan (Jn 8:44). In particular Satan has more power to
“disguise himself as an angel of
light” (2Cor 11:14), to offer his
very deadly beautiful lies as if they were the “truth that sets us
free” (Jn 8:32)!
Thus
it is very important in these times of
great confusion, when even Catholic
bishops are no longer in agreement about the fundamentals of our
faith and morals, to not only pray much and to study the Catechism of
the Catholic Church for adults, but to
keep our eyes open so as not to fall into the beautiful lies of Satan
presented as if they were the Truth!
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UPDATES on some of these fundamental, hidden, and disguised
deceptions of the ancient serpent, visit one of my index web sites to
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