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...Once the Pentecostalist has gone through this mystical commitment, he acquires one or more of the "charisms" that St. Paul described in I Corinthians...
MARJOE'S unreflective arrogance shows in other moments as well a warning in the him crew not to make it with Pentecostalist groupers. I've made it a rule not to take out girls from the church I stick to airline stewardesses and a final scene in which he performs the having of the hands upon his puppy the message is clear the people were as stupid as dogs...
...just Marjoe's Pentecostalist crowds who are exploited, demeaned and manipulated. In Manhattan, where Marjoe is playing to sizable crowds, the reactions are different from those in the gospel big-tops but just as predictable: a lot of laughter, a good deal of patronizing liberal headshaking, a general tsk-tsking over the sorry state of religion. "Look," Marjoe seems to tell the world, "religious people are just as bad as we are." So are some film makers...
...Pentecostalist fervor has been growing rapidly. From its beginnings at Duquesne University in 1967, where Wilkerson's book was one of the influences, the movement spread to Notre Dame and Ann Arbor, which have been major forces in it ever since. But there are sizable numbers elsewhere. On Trinity Sunday last week, 450 Catholic Pentecostals held a "Day of Renewal" at St. Theresa Catholic Church in San Diego; this weekend 3,000 Catholic Pentecostals from all over the country are expected to gather at Notre Dame for their annual national conference...
Despite the evidence of enriched religiosity, there is enough in the Catholic Pentecostalist movement to account for the hierarchy's reserve. It is casually ecumenical. Its speaking in tongues ?glossolalia, a form of prayer that is usually a babbling non-language?is done quietly, but it is done. The Pentecostals have the unhappy faculty of offending both liberals and conservatives in Catholicism: liberals resent their insistent orthodox theology, conservatives their communal lifestyle...