Folks, the birthday of the Church is upon us. That's the Feast of Pentecost, to be celebrated this coming Sunday. To that effect, Dr. Marcellino D'Ambrosio has written a fine essay on the gifts and charisms of the Holy Spirit which you may read here. There's a great many of you who deeply question the theological basis of the claims made by Catholic Charismatics. I understand them, and I respect them. Some of the criticism is very sharp and thought-provoking. I can't ignore them. Some of them are difficult to refute but, with enough time, I can intuit that old...