In Progress. An examination of right-wing sects within the Catholic Church. Catholics on Amazon didn't like it.

While it loses some points for currency, and the author did come across as trying too hard occasionally, this is an interesting view of some of the more conservative right-wing Christian Roman Catholic groups from the point of view of someone who was involved and left. Urquart comes across as being quite bitter about the loss of time and he does sound like he regrets the time it took from him, leaving him with nothing other than a lot of psychological damage and baggage.

Urquart questions the motives of Focolare, Neocatechumenate and Communion and LIberation, three right-wing conservative groups that have sprung up in Roman Catholicism. These groups believe in total immersion of their members and the leaders appear to want total control and absolute obedience.

It's difficult to say, without becoming involved myself in these groups how manipulative they are but take a quick look at the Wikipedia pages. They are bland with no criticism, there is no organisation in the world that doesn't receive some sort of critical commentary somewhere, then again maybe I'm a little paranoid, but the criticism pages do have one of the major editors saying that ex-members have no right to comment.

It could have done with some editing and it does come across as occasionally a bit repeditive and disjointed, still it's interesting to read how a few people with a mission can cause change. ( )