 While these groups often parallel western communities who identify with the New Monasticism, the new monastic communities may be characterized by a centripetal force, renewing the church and the neighborhoods in which they exist by drawing people in, while the new friars by a centrifugal one, whose energy moves outward to the global margins, seeking to raise up and mobilize members to move into the cities of the majority world.Neomonastic communities in the west are like domestic cousins to the new friars, who inhabit the slums primarily in the developing world.The publishing of The New Friars in 2006 became a catalyst for several groups to begin conversation around the term.