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Pope Unites Charismatics
Richard Dunstan
Volume 33 Issue 4, 5 & 6 | Posted: June 14, 2019
A unified worldwide “service of communion” for the Catholic Charismatic renewal will begin operation on Pentecost Sunday, June 9.
To be known as CHARIS in (Catholic Charismatic Renewal International Service), the new service was requested by Pope Francis in 2015. It will combine the work of International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services (the international service committee) and the Catholic Fraternity of Covenant Communities and Fellowships. The two groups have previously maintained separate organizations, the working together on many projects.
A unified worldwide “service of communion” for the Catholic Charismatic renewal will begin operation on Pentecost Sunday, June 9.
To be known as CHARIS in (Catholic Charismatic Renewal International Service), the new service was requested by Pope Francis in 2015. It will combine the work of International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services (the international service committee) and the Catholic Fraternity of Covenant Communities and Fellowships. The two groups have previously maintained separate organizations, the working together on many projects.
CHARIS will be headquartered at the previous ICCRS office in the Vatican. It will carry on projects initiated by ICCRS. Like ICCRS, CHARIS will be a service body, not a governing body, and will not have authority over charismatic groups and organizations, all of which are subject to the authority of their bishops or other relevant Church authorities.
“Perhaps the time has arrived in which the one current of Grace should have one international extended service, here in Rome, where ICCRS, Catholic Fraternity and all the other realities are equally represented, and where the Holy Spirit can be the only guide and driver,” the Pope wrote in December 2015 to Michelle Morin, then president of ICCRS, and Alberto Barbosa, president of the Catholic Fraternity.
“This does not mean losing your identity, it means growing in the life of the Spirit, each with their own charism, in mutual enrichment all born from the Spirit in the same current of grace.”
Richard Dunstan