The new catholic communities - the communities of life and alliance - are a new phenomenon in the catholic universe. Born from The Catholic Charismatic Renewal, the New Communities are the institutionalization of Catholic Pentecostalism. The Catholic Church in Brazil in the last fifty years has stood out by the participation in the civil society and in the political public sphere in defense of citizenship. The present research has looked to answer a question: could be the New Communities moving towards the civil society and political public sphere, developing what it could be named a renewed citizenship? Taking the New Communities from the metopolitan region of Rio de Janeiro as a field of research, the answer was negative. The charismatic spirituality, a mystical way of salvation, and the ideal of fraternity lived in community, which characterized the New Communities, are barriers for participation in the plural space of the civil society and political public sphere because they emphasize a radical rupture with the world - the society - creating a own private space - the Community - to live the fraternity and the gifts from the Holy Spirit.