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

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,

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

María Ascensión Romero, member of the Dicastery for Evangelization

Appointment of the Members of the Dicastery for Evangelization. Section for Fundamental Questions of Evangelization in the World. Pope Francis receives the International Team Responsible for the Neocatechumenal Way on September 20, 2019. The Holy Father, Pope Francis, has appointed today, April 25, 2023, the Members of the Dicastery for Evangelization, Section for the fundamental questions of the evangelization of the world, with a mandate for 5 years. Among these,