Pope kneels while charismatics speak in tongues around him
By Cindy Wooden Rome Meeting more than 50,000 Catholic charismatics in Rome's Olympic Stadium, Pope Francis admitted he was not always comfortable with the way they prayed, but he knelt onstage as they …More
By Cindy Wooden
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Meeting more than 50,000 Catholic charismatics in Rome's Olympic Stadium, Pope Francis admitted he was not always comfortable with the way they prayed, but he knelt onstage as they prayed for him and over him by singing and speaking in tongues.
"In the early years of the charismatic renewal in Buenos Aires, I did not have much love for charismatics," the pope said June 1. "I said of them: They seem like a samba school."
Little by little, though, he came to see how much good the movement was doing for Catholics and for the church, he told a gathering organized by the International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services and the Catholic Fraternity of Charismatic Covenant Communities and Fellowships.
Pope Francis invited the crowd, which included charismatics from 55 countries, to come to St. Peter's Square for Pentecost in 2017 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the movement. The Catholic charismatic movement traces its origins to a retreat held in 1967 with students …More
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Meeting more than 50,000 Catholic charismatics in Rome's Olympic Stadium, Pope Francis admitted he was not always comfortable with the way they prayed, but he knelt onstage as they prayed for him and over him by singing and speaking in tongues.
"In the early years of the charismatic renewal in Buenos Aires, I did not have much love for charismatics," the pope said June 1. "I said of them: They seem like a samba school."
Little by little, though, he came to see how much good the movement was doing for Catholics and for the church, he told a gathering organized by the International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services and the Catholic Fraternity of Charismatic Covenant Communities and Fellowships.
Pope Francis invited the crowd, which included charismatics from 55 countries, to come to St. Peter's Square for Pentecost in 2017 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the movement. The Catholic charismatic movement traces its origins to a retreat held in 1967 with students …More
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Prof. Wessell -Das war sehr gut gesagt. I have always thought of glossolalia as a modern form of Gnosticism. The claim of the speaker in unknown tongues is that of the Holy Spirit - a secret esoteric knowledge only accessible only to one who is baptized in the Spirit. Generally, those Christians who are non-Charismatic are generally not regarded as possessing the gift of interpretations and do not …More
Prof. Wessell -Das war sehr gut gesagt. I have always thought of glossolalia as a modern form of Gnosticism. The claim of the speaker in unknown tongues is that of the Holy Spirit - a secret esoteric knowledge only accessible only to one who is baptized in the Spirit. Generally, those Christians who are non-Charismatic are generally not regarded as possessing the gift of interpretations and do not have access to the mystically obscure knowledge. The danger is that it can become in some Catholic Charismatic circles an 8th sacrament or worse a substitute for Holy Communion.