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To: Tax-chick

I just noticed that about the Charismatic Renewal.

I will stand up and say clearly, it is not a heresy. There are prayer groups within it, though, who have become, well, muddled about the Church....

It's more like an approach to spirituality. If one's loyalty was more to being a Charismatic and having connections to non-Catholic charismatics than to being part of the Church, it could then qualify on an individual basis or with particular prayer group circles. It also had papal approval as a church movement.

Anybody tell me that Father Harold Cohen, who worked a lot with Mother Angelica, and one of the holiest people I ever knew and who did the program Closer Walk and was also very active in the charismatic movement, was a heretic, I will have to get you to prove that to me.

He is no doubt in Heaven praying for all of us hotheads right now.


59 posted on 03/04/2007 6:57:39 PM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

The Popes have approved the Catholic Charismatic Renewal as a valid movement in the Church. One of the most popular writers and speakers in CCR, Father Cantalamessa, has been preacher to the papal househole for many years!

This doesn't mean that there aren't individual Catholic Charismatics who fall into error or even heresy - that can happen to anyone, Charismatic or not. However, it does imply that whoever compiled this list doesn't take the authority of the Pope too seriously!


70 posted on 03/05/2007 4:05:44 AM PST by Tax-chick (Every "choice" has a direct object.)
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