Category: International Responsibles

Father Mario Pezzi, honorary doctorate in Theology from UCAM

In the Neocatechumenal Way, his catechesis on the Magisterium of the Church, at the service of evangelization, has formed generations of people from all over the world. On Thursday, November 13, Father Mario Pezzi, priest of the International Team of the Neocatechumenal Way, received an honorary doctorate in Theology from the Catholic University of San Antonio in Murcia (UCAM): a recognition of his extraordinary merits, especially in research and formation

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Honorary Doctorate to Father Mario Pezzi

On Thursday, November 13, Father Mario Pezzi, priest of the International Team of the Neocatechumenal Way, will receive an honorary doctorate in theology from the Catholic University of San Antonio in Murcia (UCAM). The inauguration will take place during the opening ceremony of the 2025-2026 academic year, in the presence of Monsignor José Manuel Lorca Planes, Bishop of the Diocese of Cartagena-Murcia, the President of UCAM, María Dolores García Mascarell,

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120,000 youth from the Neocatechumenal Way in Rome for the Jubilee with the Pope and a vocational meeting

As a conclusion to the Jubilee of Young People, desired by Pope Francis and celebrated by Pope Leo XIV to restore hope to today’s world, 120,000 young people from the communities of the Neocatechumenal Way from 109 countries on five continents gathered this afternoon, August 4, at the same place where they met with the Pope, with the International Team, Kiko Argüello, María Ascensión, and Father Mario Pezzi. On the

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Pope Leo XIV receives Kiko Arguello, founder of the Neocatechumenal Way

This morning, June 5, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. in the Library of the Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father Leo XIV received for the first time in private audience the International Team of the Neocatechumenal Way, Kiko Argüello, Father Mario Pezzi, and María Ascensión Romero. Kiko greeted the Pope, telling him that he was very happy that God had given us a missionary Pope, because this is also the mission of

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Press release from the Neocatechumenal Way on the death of Pope Francis

April 21, 2025 Kiko, Father Mario and Ascensión, the responsibles for the Neocatechumenal Way, and all the Brothers of the Way have received with sorrow the news of the death of the Holy Father, our Pope Francis. Yesterday, in his Easter message Urbi et Orbi, he gave us his final witness of faith: “Dear brothers and sisters, at the Lord’s Easter, death and life have clashed in a prodigious duel,

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The Pope receives Kiko Argüello, initiator of the Neocatechumenal Way

This morning, Saturday, January 27, 2024, Pope Francis received in private audience the International Team responsible for the Neocatechumenal Way: the initiator Kiko Argüello, Father Mario Pezzi and Miss Ascension Romero. During the audience, the Team informed the Holy Father of the International Convivence of Itinerants, which has just concluded, with more than 1,000 itinerants, leaders of the 136 nations where the Neocatechumenal Way is present, as well as the

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