[NYer]

In Latin America, they're pulling millions of faithful away from the Catholic Church.

In so doing, they ignore the very scripture they proclaim:

Thus I aspire to proclaim the gospel not where Christ has already been named, so that I do not build on another's foundation, but as it is written: "Those who have never been told of him shall see, and those who have never heard of him shall understand."
Romans 15:20-21

[SevenofNine]

That so true especially in Los Angeles there is lot of Latinos who covert to Evangical churches

[Steve_Seattle]

"In so doing, they ignore the very scripture they proclaim . . . "

A legitimate point, but I wonder if the alternatives are not simply Catholicism versus evangelicalism, but rather Catholicism versus evangelicalism versus apostasy or atheism. In other words, are the evangelicals converting people from Catholicism to evangelicalism, or are they saving lukewarm or apostate Catholics from indifference and agnosticism via conversion to evangelicalism?

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

I’m a Pentacostal. I don’t care if someone comes to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ through the Assemblies of God, the Roman Catholic Church, the Methodist Church, the Russian Orthodox Church, the Southern Baptist Church, the Syrian Coptic Church, the small non-demoninational Church in a storefront downtown, or the big mega-Church out on the highway.

As long as Christ is preached and his Gospel is proclaimed, I don’t care.

Let’s save souls rather than bickering about who is sitting at what table for the banquet afterwards.

[Kackikat]

The book of ACTS when 3000 where filled with Holy Spirit, and each spoke in tongues, STILL AVAILABLE TO REAL CHRISTIANS.

However some are CINOs, Christians in name only...not really believers in Holy Spirit and his power.

In 1967 the second large group of infilling of the Holy Spirit was in NOTRE DAME University conference...3000 (note the number) were Baptised in Holy Ghost (Spirit)..it was the beginning of that second great awakening and impacted America for more than twenty years, in fact some are still being impacted.

I believe a third wave is coming to those who aren’t HERETICS and have open hearts. The Catholic Charismatic movement hit the Protestant churches and there were MILLIONS who are now part of that movement.

Around 1900 in San Francisco there was the first movement at a meeting where AMY MCPHERSON was ministering and that was the beginning of the Charismatic movement for the Pentecostals in America.

PENTECOST...REMEMBER THE BOOK OF ACTS.

The Holy Spirit is the third part of the trinity, and if you read the Bible you will find JESUS SAID that he had to go the Father so that the COMFORTER (Holy Spirit) could come. WEll just what part of that don’t you get?

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit!

http://www.openbible.info/topics/the_unpardonable_sin

[GreyFriar]

My question, which in this forum is mainly rhetorical, is:

Why are Catholics in South America being drawn to the Pentecostal churches? Are they finding their spiritual needs fulfilled by the Pentecostals in a way that the Roman Catholic church is not meeting those needs?

I don’t have the answer to those two questions. And don’t want a “food fight” by folks speculating.

[Iscool]

In so doing, they ignore the very scripture they proclaim: Thus I aspire to proclaim the gospel not where Christ has already been named, so that I do not build on another's foundation, but as it is written: "Those who have never been told of him shall see, and those who have never heard of him shall understand." Romans 15:20-21

If your first pope Peter and Paul could ignore that scripture why not your last pope and a Protestant preacher???

[metmom]

In Latin America, they're pulling millions of faithful away from the Catholic Church.

Nobody is forcing the people to leave.