Tag: Charismatic

The last of the annual Steubenville youth conferences is winding down. These are huge, popular, teen-oriented Catholic gatherings at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio, here in the US.

For Catholics, Pentecostalist Christianity means something different for each generation. It first hit the Australian scene in a big way during the 1959 Billy Graham Bible Crusade, which filled Australia’s cricket stadiums with an estimated 3 million people, a third of the country’s population at the time.

While the Church at large seems at a loss to know quite how to re-engage young people, the Missionaries of God’s Love, a rapidly...

Lay preacher and founder of the fastest growing Catholic charismatic prayer community, Lalith Perera, will be leading several prayer meetings and retreats in the...