It began in 1967 when Catholics from Duquesne University attended a Protestant worship service and claimed to have been "baptized in the Holy Spirit".

Towards the end of the 19th century, God began to plant the seeds that would grow into the present-day charismatic renewal. From 1895 to 1903, Blessed Elena Guerra, foundress of the Oblate Sisters of The Holy Spirit in Italy, wrote 12 confidential letters to Pope Leo XIII, asking him to encourage greater devotion to the Holy Spirit among Catholics.

The following contains a collection of sources for the history of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. There are an abundance of sources from many archives of charismatic groups, but few of them lay out the structural aspects of how the renewal began and developed so rapidly and quickly.

One of the many spiritual renewals within the Catholic Church, the Charismatic Renewal Movement, started in 1967 when a handful of students and university theology professors from the DuQuesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, got together for a retreat weekend.

2022年7月8日 · The Catholic Charismatic Renewal is only the latest of these expressions of baptism in the Spirit and charismatic gifts. The renewal of this experience of “baptism in the Spirit” began in the Catholic Church in February of 1967 when a group of students on retreat at Duquesne University began praying for a fresh outpouring of Pentecost.

To find the real start, we need to go back to the late 1890s and Pope Leo XIII and Blessed Elena Guerra. Blessed Elena wrote several letters to Pope Leo XIII asking him to promote devotion to the Holy Spirit.

It has been well documented that the CCR began in February 1967, at Pittsburgh's Duquesne University (PA), when a history professor, William Storey, and a graduate student, Ralph Kiefer, were baptised in the Holy Spirit in a charismatic prayer group of Episcopalians.

2019年6月7日 · The Catholic Charismatic Renewal as it exists today is the outgrowth from a retreat held in February 1967 of several faculty members and students from Duquesne University. Many of the...

2011年6月5日 · WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - The Catholic Charismatic Renewal finds its roots at a retreat for Duquesne University's Chi Rho Scripture Study group in February, 1967. The retreat was held at The Ark and the Dove Retreat House, just …

This weekend is often referred to as the 'Duquesne weekend', and is considered as the beginning of the Charismatic Renewal in the Catholic Church. The retreat concentrated on the first four chapters of the Acts of the Apostles. And there was an expectation that the Holy Spirit would make His presence felt. They were not disappointed.