A Complicated ‘Denominator’ of the Beginnings of the History of the Charismatic Renewal in the Roman Catholic Church
A Complicated ‘Denominator’ of the Beginnings of the History of the Charismatic Renewal in the Roman Catholic Church

Summary/Abstract: Every story has a beginning. Most stories have an end. An attempt at a synthetic analysis of the history of the beginning of the Renewal in the Holy Spirit in the Roman Catholic Church turns out to be confronted with a certain preliminary reality: this history not only does not have a specific beginning, but also has no ending. This is still an open story. Recently (2017) celebrating her fiftieth birthday in the Roman Catholic Church, a de facto only symbolic experience was adopted as the date of initial reference. The day of receipt of charisms by members of a small group of American students on February 18, 1967 in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) in the United States is only a conventional date and place. Neither this moment nor this event exhausts the enormous and much more extensive charismatic experience of the Holy Spirit in the Church, which can be seen in various and numerous moments of the history of the Church. This study attempts to explain this individual experience from the perspective of the analysis of significant elements of the first structuring of the charismatic revival in the Roman Catholic Church in the 20th century. This study is also an attempt to take a synthetic look at the history of events, as well as at the authors who created it, including: Ralph Martin, Steve Clark, Gerry Rauch, Veronica O'Brien, Cardinal Léon-Jospeh Suenens and Pope Paul VI.

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