PENTECOSTAL CONTROVERSY

right from the horses mouth:
"I grew up pentecostal. This kind of garbage happens in pentecostal churches all the time. It may not be happening in your church but this is the kind of thing that the pentecostal movement was founded on."

"The following study was published by the Central Bureau Press, 3835 Westminster Place, St. Louis, MO 63108, in 1973 with the Imprimatur of the Most Rev. Charles R. Koester, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of St. Louis. It proved to be one of the first analyses of the Pentecostalist excesses which characterized what would later become known as the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. Since such excesses unfortunately still disfigure that movement, the study retains its value to Catholics concerned at the strange, pretentious and sometimes bizarre behavior exhibited by those claiming extraordinary gifts given by the Holy Spirit." The Pentecostalism Controversy is an excellent article and is worth reading it in full!