[married21]

I’ve attended events for charismatic Catholics. Yes they do speak or sing in tongues. I understand there are two types of speaking in tongues. The first, like at Pentecost, where people were heard to speak other languages, is very rare. The more common kind is a gift of joy that seems to me very similar to scat singing in jazz. It is the gift of being relaxed enough to pray wordlessly, like a happily babbling toddler. (Think of the Scripture about becoming like little children to enter the Kingdom of God.). People who do this are no crazier than Mel Torme or Ella Fitzgerald.
If ABC has indeed spoken in tongues, it is a private matter, I suppose, but I assure you she has thousands of Catholic companions in that experience.

[Adder]

Slo Joe speaks in tongues all the time...I think.

[familyop]

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003694.html
Language Log
October 21, 2006
"Private prayer language"
Searching for "private prayer language" on LexisNexis Academic in the "Major Papers" category, I found six hits, four of which refer specifically to the two votes mentioned above. The other two uses are both in quotations. One is from a 1994 story (Esther Talbot Fenning, "Charismatic Renewal: Movement in Worship", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 19, 1994), about practices in among Catholics involved in "Charismatic Renewal" (emphasis added):
Charismatics believe that speaking in tongues, healing and prophecy are gifts of the early church and are still available to people who are open to them, says Bonnie Dillard of the People of Praise, a prayer group at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in St. Charles.

"Most Catholic pastors are frightened of the Charismatic Renewal," Dillard said. "Part of the reason is that they've seen people get into it and go on to leave the church."

Dillard said that speaking in tongues and prophetic utterances also are disconcerting to some Catholics.

"Tongues is simply a private prayer language consisting usually of a few nonsense syllables," she said. "It has no basic function at large gatherings."

[familyop]

People of Praise
Wikipedia
...People of Praise was formed in 1971 by Kevin Ranaghan and Paul DeCelles. Both men were involved in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, in which Pentecostal religious experiences such as baptism in the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues and prophecy was practiced by Catholics.
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History
Further information: Basic ecclesial community People of Praise grew out of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, which began in the United States in 1967 and saw Pentecostal religious experience and practices such as baptism in the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues embraced by members of the Catholic Church.

[ltc8k6]

Correction: This article’s headline originally stated that People of Praise inspired ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’. The book’s author, Margaret Atwood, has never specifically mentioned the group as being the inspiration for her work. A New Yorker profile of the author from 2017 mentions a newspaper clipping as part of her research for the book of a different charismatic Catholic group, People of Hope. Newsweek regrets the error.

[P-Marlowe]

Simple. Just skip the committee hearing and bring the nomination directly to the floor.

[Larry Lucido]

Or maybe it’s about the Association for Clinical Biochemistry.

Or the African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB).

Who knows?

[Larry Lucido]

American Council of the Blind likely has a glossary.

[ronnie raygun]

Ho Harris knows about this, ask willy

[xzins]

Being an experienced person, she could easily answer, I have studied and learned X number of languages in my life. So I do/do not have a talent for learning other languages.

That leaves it up to Ka-ma-la to try to explain what she means.

[1Old Pro]

I can see Kamala asking her, "Do you believe that you have the Gift of Tongues?"

Well Kamala, i'm not sure, but Willie tells me you do!

[CathyWhite]

Thank you for this educational and entertaining post!

[Gene Eric]

>> glossolalia

figured it was a shiny annual.