ABSTRACT
Between May 31 and June 4, 2017, the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR) celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in Rome – its Golden Jubilee – with the participation of Charismatics from all over the world. It was designed, on the explicit desire of Pope Francis, as an ecumenical event with members of various Catholic Charismatic expressions and representatives from the evangelical and Pentecostal world attending and speaking. Witnesses of the first years of the CCR, such as Patty Mansfield Gallagher, and important world leaders, such as Michelle Moran, president of the International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services (ICCRS), and Gilberto Gomes Barbosa, president of the Catholic Fraternity (CFCCCF), intervened. The establishment of a single organization such as Catholic Charismatic Renewal International Service, unlike ICCRS and the CFCCCF, which were two bodies of a private nature,9 has been provided with a public juridical personality according to Canons 116–23 of the Code of Canon Law.
