Christian Europe's Vital Signs!?

"Perhaps nowhere is this more true than within European Catholicism, where new religious currents have become a potent force. Examples include movements such as the Focolare
   
 Emmanuel Community  
and the Neo-Catechumenal Way


all of which are committed to a re-evangelization of Europe. These movements use charismatic styles of worship and devotion that would seem more at home in an American Pentecostal church, but at the same time they are thoroughly Catholic. Though most of these movements originated in Spain and Italy, they have subsequently spread throughout Europe and across the Catholic world. Their influence over the younger clergy and lay leaders who will shape the church in the next generation is surprisingly strong." 


Update 2023, many of these new movements have become centres for scandals involving games of sex and power. They are but ersatz for traditional religious forms.

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