Mario Pezzi (born

Gottolengo Gottolengo ( lmo, label=Brescian, Otalènch) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Brescia The Province of Brescia ( it, provincia di Brescia; Brescian: ) is a Province in the Lombardy administrative region of northern Italy. It has a ...

, 19 September 1941) is an Italian priest, theologian and catechist. He is one of leading names of the

Neocatechumenal Way The Neocatechumenal Way, also known as the Neocatechumenate, or NCW (colloquially, The Way or Neo-Cats) is an association of the Christian faithful within the Catholic Church. It was formed in Madrid in 1964 by Kiko Argüello and Carmen Hern� ...

, with

Kiko Argüello Francisco José Gómez de Argüello y Wirtz (born January 9, 1939) is a Spanish artist and, together with Carmen Hernández, co-initiator of the Neocatechumenal Way. Early life Argüello was born in León, he studied fine arts at the Royal ...

and

Carmen Hernández María del Carmen Hernández Barrera (24 November 1930, in Ólvega – 19 July 2016, in Madrid) was a Spanish Roman Catholic catechist and the co-initiator of the Neocatechumenal Way. Her cause for canonization has been initiated. Biography Carme ...

Biography

He entered the

Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus Bold text The Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus ( la, Missionarii Comboniani Cordis Iesu), abbreviated MCCJ, also known as the Comboni Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, or the Verona Fathers, and originally called the Sons of the Sacred ...

seminary in 1951, aged 10 years old. He was ordained a priest on 18 March 1969. He joined the

in 1970, becoming a priest of their International Responsible Team the following year. He first met

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

in 1979, together with the two founders of the

. His work is to present a theological-pastoral view inside the NCW, where he is the leading priest. Every year he carries out the work of collating texts from the Magisterium and Tradition of the Church to help the catechists and members of the NCW. His work is presented each year at the beginning of the catechesis of the NCW courses.

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1941 births Living people 20th-century Italian Roman Catholic priests Neocatechumenal Way {{Italy-RC-clergy-stub

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