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8 it was brought into the Church by two laymen who were lecturers in Theology at the Duquesne Catholic University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Ralph Keifer and Patrick Bourgeois. They studied the books: The Cross and The Switchblade by Pastor Wilkerson, and They speak with Other Tongues by John Sherrill. They desired to renew the Christian life of the university students. In their struggles with apathy and unbelief among the college students, they needed the kind of power that Wilkerson seemed to possess. They took a passage from St. Paul to the Corinthians (1 Cor. XII) which served as theological basis for their Movement and they approached a Protestant Pentecostal prayer group for the Baptism of the Spirit on January 13, 1967. At their prayer meeting, hands were laid on Ralph and Patrick, and they received the gift of tongues. The Movement has spread far and wide through the Catholic Church, even among Priests, Bishops and Cardinals, and attracts, as an irresistible magnet, thousands of nuns eager to experience the emotions of the First Pentecost Day. It is not a Catholic Movement. It is Protestant to the core and is a child of heresy. The phenomenon caught on like wildfire through its promises of instant conversion and holiness. Lethargy and indifference encircled Priests and Bishops like a bronze wall. To them, God seemed to be rousing the dormant Pentecostal flame to a torch of Faith, a fire to set hearts aflame. Youth and women flocked in thousands to obtain a personal experience of the Holy Spirit and a taste for prayer. Traditional devotions, Rosary prayers, confessions, seminars and sermons had ended in failure while Pentecostalism claimed success everywhere. Sudden conversions, cures and an abundance of followers enticed priests to lend the support of their unquestioned authority. Three days of Charismatic retreat was held in a highly charged atmosphere, with lengthy prayers, singing, swinging to and fro, spontaneous invocations and clapping of hands, a strict fast and night vigil. Then the supreme moment came when hands were laid on and a baptism of the Spirit was given. The great out-pouring of emotion into a super human atmosphere of ecstatic joy brought forth the gift of tongues, cures were proclaimed and prophesies uttered, thus giving evidence, beyond any doubt, that their experience was genuine. Those ignorant of theology were easy prey. The Holy Ghost is the very principle of all holiness and leads the Christian to a total transformation in Christ. The Pentecostal Movement can have its origin in God or Satan. If it is of God, it would claim full and unconditional allegiance to the Catholic Faith, its dogmas and doctrine. The Pentecostals seem to know where, when and how the Spirit blows. They are fully conscious of being the dispensers of the Holy Spirit and His Gifts. They meet and the Spirit punctually and, without fail, pours out His Spirit and Gifts. Scripture is twisted and turned to suit their own ends. P entecostalism is an insult to the Church and an implied apostasy. Baptism of the Spirit is a man-made super-sacrament. Charismatics do not seem concerned with the Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost which were given


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