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Keifer sent the news of the retreat to the Catholics at the University of Notre Dame, where a similar event soon after occurred, and the baptism in the Holy Spirit began to spread. [7] For example, by March 1967, Ralph C. Martin , a leader in the Cursillo movement, had become among the earliest beneficiaries of the Duquesne Weekend, and went on ...
The Emmanuel Community is a Catholic association of the faithful of pontifical right, founded in 1972 by Pierre Goursat and Martine Lafitte-Catta, starting from a prayer group belonging to the Catholic charismatic renewal.
Until 1990, the South Bend community was the headquarters for the National Service Committee (a coordinating body for the various Catholic charismatic groups). It was also the headquarters of the Charismatic Renewal Services (a national distribution center for religious books and tapes) and published a magazine called New Heaven, New Earth.
As of 2017, the Sword of the Spirit is composed of 82 communities, 45 of which are Catholic. [1] The member communities are composed predominantly of laypersons. [2] The Sword of the Spirit is one of the largest federated networks of communities to come out of the Catholic charismatic renewal. [2] [Note 1]
Under the Canon Law of the Catholic Church, the Community is recognized as a "private association of the faithful" with its governing statutes approved by the Archbishop of Washington. In addition the Community is a member of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal International Service (CHARIS) [2] established in the Vatican by the Holy See.
A publishing house affiliated with the Community, Servant Publications, published works by contemporary Catholic and Evangelical authors, including community members Bert Ghezzi, Stephen Clark, and Ralph Martin. [15] These books presented songs used in charismatic renewal prayer groups, many written by members of the Word of God Community. [16]
Catholic spiritual teaching includes spreading the Gospel, while Catholic social teaching emphasises support for the sick, the poor and the afflicted through the corporal and spiritual works of mercy. The Catholic Church is the largest non-governmental provider of education and medical services in the world. [1]
Moreover, the Catholic Church, of which El Shaddai is an apostolate, refrains from interfering in temporal matters and, as such, does not dictate to its members which candidates to support or oppose. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] In the same vein, individual members of the Catholic Church are free to form voting blocs that are independent from the church itself ...