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Faced with such blatant and heretical rhetoric, it should be obvious that something is seriously amiss with much of the leadership of the Renewal. The hierarchy of the Church, has so far assumed a relatively benign attitude towards the Charismatic Renewal. Indeed, both Paul VI and John Paul II have voiced their cautious support for the movement (though there is nothing infallible in such statements). However, eventually the magisterium will, I feel, act in a decisive manner to clarify the true Catholic teaching on the charisms in the life of the Church and condemn the many intrusive, Protestantized errors and distortions which the more radical members of the Renewal have long wished to impose on the body of the faithful.

These must in the end come to terms with the history and origins of Pentecostalism and of the so called “ecumenical Charismatic movement” (which is, after all, their indubitable point of origin), and its erroneous notions with regards to the true nature of the “charismata” and their true place in the life of the Church.

The Church will also come to ultimately unmask the false irenicism practiced by many of the movement’s leaders, which is based upon a so called “unity in the Spirit” which is in reality the subordination of the truths of revelation, of the Divine Truths contained in Scripture and Tradition and taught authoritatively by the Church throughout her history, to a shared, subjective and spiritually dubious experience generally referred to as “Baptism in the Spirit,” along with all the concomitant phenomena which it implies. Lest these words sound harsh, harsher still to Catholic truth is what is implied by many leaders in the radical Charismatic movement- a claim that this generation possesses, by virtue of the “outpouring” or “latter rain”, a fullness of the Spirit’s power which was somehow mitigated or hidden (subsequent to the Apostolic Church) in previous epochs of Church history- only to manifest itself anew as a “New Pentecost” as articulated by the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements of the
twentieth century:

The Holy Spirit is eminently the Spirit of Truth, and it is His abiding solicitude as Advocate and Guide which has been the hope and assurance of Christians for these two thousand years. To affirm that His presence in the
Church was somehow insufficient or truncated throughout many centuries of her life, and that it is in this century alone that believers can truly experience the full fruit of His outpouring, is the grossest caricature of the reality, the shallowest of insults to His perpetual and loving indwelling of the Mystical Body of Christ. Such an attitude must be answered; it is in defense of Catholic truth and the indefectibility of the Church that we attempt to do so:

“And I say to thee: that thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

“And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven.” (St. Matthew XVI, 18-19)

But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the Church of God, the pillar and ground of truth. (I Timothy III, 15)