Vatican City, Jan 20, 2012 / 08:10 pm (CNA).- The Vatican announced Jan. 20 that the Neo-Catechumenal Way’s prayers and non-liturgical celebrations have been approved.

“This is a great grace, after so much suffering and work, today is a great relief,” said the cofounder of the movement, Francisco “Kiko” Argüello, in a Jan. 20 interview with CNA in Rome.

Argüello was joined in Rome today by his fellow cofounder, Carmen Hernández, and 7,000 members of the Neo-Catechumenal Way for a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI in the Vatican’s Paul VI audience hall.

“Over these decades of life of the Way, your firm commitment has been to proclaim the Gospel of the risen Christ,” the Pope said to gathering.

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