"Chapter Six: The Decline and Fall of Catholic Pentecostalism"

Adapted from Father McCarthy Smokes a Pipe and Speaks in Tongues. R. Douglas Wead, 1972.

Page 107 - 108.

"I concluded that there are two prominent threats that face the Pentecostal movement in the Catholic Church.

"First, it may strangle itself in fanaticism.

"The Catholic Church may not have the patience to understand some of the excesses which are potential in such a revival.

"Or secondly, the Church and well - intentioned organizations within her may attempt to legislate the revival and end up killing it with organization and planning.

"While Catholic Pentecostals feel confident tht they will never be susceptible to the same emotional extremes which marked earlier classical Pentecostalism, they are deceiving themselves if they conclude that they are immune to any form of extremism."