Decree of Approval to the Statutes of the Neo-Catechumenal Way

by Pontifical Council for the Laity

Descriptive Title

Pontifical Council for the Laity Decree of Approval to the Statutes of the Neo-Catechumenal Way 2012

Description

On January 20, 2012, the Pontifical Council for the Laity published this decree approving the celebrations contained in the Catechetical Directory of the Neo-Catechumenal Way. The decree is dated January 8, Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, and bears the signatures of Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko and Bishop Josef Clemens, respectively president and secretary of the council.

Publisher & Date

Vatican, January 20, 2012

By a decree of 11 May 2008 the Pontifical Council for the Laity gave definitive approval to the Statutes of the Neo-Catechumenal Way. Subsequently, following due consultation with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, by a decree of 26 December 2010, the council gave approval to the publication of the Catechetical Directory as a valid and binding instrument for the catechesis of the Neo-Catechumenal Way.

Now, pursuant to articles 131 and 133 paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Apostolic Constitution 'Pastor Bonus' on the Roman Curia, the Pontifical Council for the Laity, having received the 'nulla osta' of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, grants approval to those celebrations contained in the Catechetical Directory of the Neo-Catechumenal Way which are not, by their nature, already regulated by the liturgical books of the Church.

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