Why I do not trust charismatics in England

Again, during this past weekend in Walsingham, I had the unhappy experience of hearing nonsense and even magical thinking from charismatics.

What has happened here is that the charismatics have fallen into several traps.

I want to list these, as these traps can lead to the loss of the True Faith, through deception.

Let me list the traps.

One, the first and most horrible problem is thinking like a protestant. Catholics have a very long history of Tradition and the correct Revelation, using bad translations, for example, such as the Good News Bible.

Thinking like a protestant means not understanding the process of holiness, and the purgation of the inner person, soul, mind, heart. Such experiences such as resting or being slain in the Spirit may be totally emotional and based on manipulation.

This has nothing to do with the ecstasy which follows the purgation stage.

Second, charismatics here undermine consistently the authority of the Church by practicing so-called healing and deliverance outside the normal channels of the hierarchy. Not only does this indicate a disobedience in the soul, but a disdain for authority, or an arrogance in which these people think they are holier than Rome.

Three, again, as in the last post, too many seek the consolations and not the Cross.

to be continued...