The Catholic Church on the Pacific island of Guam has been devastated
by allegations that its longtime archbishop sexually abused altar boys.
But even before the scandal broke, Guam's church was divided over
another issue - the presence of a controversial European lay movement
that became so toxic that a community of nuns fled to the mainland U.S.
in despair.
The battle on the tiny tropical U.S. territory pits the Neocatechumenal Way lay group against critics on a majority Catholic island that was colonized by Spanish missionaries in the 17th century. The Way was founded in the 1960s in Madrid and is best known for sending families out on missions to evangelize in places where Catholics are a either a minority or have fallen away from the church.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-4372554/Guam-Catholic-Church-sees-perfect-storm-controversy.html
The battle on the tiny tropical U.S. territory pits the Neocatechumenal Way lay group against critics on a majority Catholic island that was colonized by Spanish missionaries in the 17th century. The Way was founded in the 1960s in Madrid and is best known for sending families out on missions to evangelize in places where Catholics are a either a minority or have fallen away from the church.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-4372554/Guam-Catholic-Church-sees-perfect-storm-controversy.html
