Neocatechumenal Way should suspend work in Japan: Archbishop of Tokyo

February 02, 2011

The Neocatechumenal Way should suspend its work in Japan, despite support from the Vatican, according to Archbishop Peter Takeo Okada of Tokyo.

In January the Vatican Secretariat of State has overruled a decision by the Japanese bishops’ conference to suspend the work of the Neocatechumenal Way in that country for 5 years. But Archbishop Okada observed that the Vatican’s decision leaves individual bishops free to determine the status of the Neocatechumenal Way in their own dioceses.

Archbishop Okada was frank in stating his own opinion that the Way should cease activities in Japan for a time, to repair fractured relations with local Church leaders.

 

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Further information:

• The Neocatechumenal Way in Japan (UCAN)
• Holy See overrules Japanese bishops on Neocatechumenal Way (CWN, 1/10)