Pope plans Pentecost celebrations with charismatics and Pentecostals
In Catholic News Service, Vatican
May 2, 2017
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Pope Francis celebrates a Pentecost mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, May 15, 2016. (Credit: AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino.)
Pope Francis, in a show of openness, invited Catholic charismatics and members of Pentecostal and Evangelical churches to Rome to join him in celebration of Pentecost and the 50th anniversary of the birth of the Catholic charismatic movement.
ROME — Pope Francis has invited thousands of Catholic charismatics and members of Pentecostal and Evangelical churches to Rome to celebrate Pentecost and mark the 50th anniversary of what became the Catholic Charismatic Renewal.
The pope will lead a prayer vigil June 3, the eve of Pentecost, at Rome’s Circus Maximus, an open field that was the site of an ancient Roman stadium used for chariot races. Participants will join the pope the next morning for Pentecost Mass in …