"Nous attendons le réveil de Mlle. Gallagher"

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Source: As By A New Pentecost: The Dramatic Beginning of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. Patti Gallagher Mansfield's "tell - all" -- and at times even somewhat truthful -- book published by the Franciscan University Press of Steubenville, Ohio, in 1992.

Well, folks: it's a long haul from when her book on the famous 1967 Duquesne Weekend was published in 1992 to around early 2007, when her account of the Duquesne Weekend was posted to an internet website.

Because for the first 25 years after Duquesne Patti Gallagher Mansfield more or less kept faith, at time generously so, with the historical fact that men like the Assembly of God minister Reverend David Wilkerson and his book The Cross and the Switch Blade played a pivotal role in the proceedings.

But!

During the next 15 years something went really, really wrong.

Her brief internet verison, posted here a few days back, gives brief credit to Wilkerson's book like perhaps two times, while she gives credit to the man himself, zero times.

Recently, the official Archdiocese of San Antonio newspaper opted to delete both Wilkerson and his book from the collective memory of the Charismatic Catholics here in our part of the country.

This is easy to say, as the official newspaper, "Today's Catholic" carried a blurb last month "celebrating" the 40th anniversary of the famous 1967 Duquesne Weekend -- using a nationally syndicated article that made no mention of Reverend David Wilkerson or his book, The Cross and the Switch Blade.

Period.