But doesn't the Pope support the Charismatic Movement?
Didn't three popes sanction the movement?
Only if self promotion counts. The Church never endorsed this movement officially. Read IS IT OFFICIAL OR NOT.
But doesn't The Holy Spirit protect his Church?
The Holy Spirit is not a genie. "The Holy Spirit was not promised to the successors of Peter, that by His revelation they might make new doctrine, but that by His assistance they might inviolably keep and faithfully expound the revelation or deposit of faith delivered through the Apostles." - (Vatican I)
The biggest mistake people make is equating papal addresses and bishop communiqués with Catholic Dogma. These communiqués are not binding for anybody. Where infallibility is not invoked, there is a possibility for error. There were false movements in the Church before, some took several hundred years before the Church expelled them. But eventually every false movement is discarded because the Holy Spirit will never abandon the Church. But there are limits to Divine Protection, because man has free will. Some people erroneously think that the Holy Spirit is a kind of genie guiding the pope's and bishops' every step and rubber stamping everything that they put forth. If that were true then why have Dogmas, Bible, Canon Laws, etc? Yes the Holy Spirit guides, but the leaders don't always listen and sometimes they listen to the wrong voice or for the wrong reason. The Church has supernatural help to define truth and to guarantee that its Sacraments are effective. But to say that every decision, every utterance coming from the Pope is protected by the Holy Spirit is just Catholic fundamentalism; a kind of papalotry.
But aren't a large number of bishops supporting the Charismatic Renewal?
What of it? During the Arian heresy, forty percent of Catholic bishops became Arian and twice as many supported it. If we are to believe that bishops never teach error, than we would have to say that Arian bishops were not teaching error. But Arianism was not the only heresy thought by a large number of bishops. There were countless other heretical sects that had their origins in heretical Catholic clergy. From the beginning of Christianity, the Church has been attacked by false teachings, or heresies; Judas Iscariot being the first of many.
We have been warned that this would happen. As Paul told Timothy, "For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine but, following their own desires and insatiable curiosity, will accumulate teachers and will stop listening to the truth and will be diverted to myths" (2 Timothy 4:3-4).
