GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Haidee V Eugenio, Pacific Daily News September 21, 2016
Dr. Ricardo B. Eusebio, president of I Familian Mangatoliku Siha Pari Si Apuron or Catholic Families for Apuron, on Wednesday said the Neocatechumenal Way should not be blamed for everything that is going wrong with the local church.
The Rev. Jeff San Nicolas, during a press conference Tuesday arranged by the Archdiocese of Agana, said leaders of the Neocatechumenal Way, locally and internationally, have been interfering with the Guam church, to the detriment of other Catholics.
The Neocatechumenal Way is a movement within the Catholic church whose practices sometimes are at odds with those of Guam’s traditional Catholic community. Apuron, who belongs to the group, has been placed by the Vatican on temporary leave over sex abuse allegations.
“I think the Neocatechumenal Way has been made to be the boogeyman. Everything that you don’t like is a fault of the Neocatechumenal Way,” Eusebio said. “The advances, the reputation of the Neocatechumenal Way, has been harmed significantly because of this.”
Eusebio, who has been a member of the group on Guam for 19 years, said the Neocatechumenal Way has more than 700 members on Guam. At least nine of the Catholic parishes on the island have members of the Neocatechumenal Way in them, he said.
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