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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Room mother in Catholic school started speaking in tongues during a prayer circle.[/quote]

That is not a Catholic thing. Are you sure she wasn't having a seizure?[/quote]

Yep, not Catholic. [/quote]

Charismatic Catholics speak in tongues. A friend from my parochial school was from a family that did that. [/quote]

Learn something new every day! There are laity and prelatures and public juridic persons within Catholicism: SSPX, Opus Dei, Renewal Charismatics (aka CHARIS). Each takes a personal view of the religion toward the edge in varying directions, and often they are strongly at odds with one another (esp. SSPX v. CHARIS - one views the other as essentially evangelical Protestant). In the middle are the billion  typical Catholics who don't recognize themselves in any of these groups. I'm a cradle Catholic and went to Catholic schools all my life including grad school, and I'd never heard of any of these until Dan Brown's novel and more recent news. In fact, it turns out that I have an Aunt who is a Charismatic Catholic, and I always thought she was a born again Christian Protestant. She does not recognize our Catholic church as the same religion as hers, but I guess it sort of is. I also met a guy who is in Opus Dei, and I do not recognize my religion in some of his beliefs at all. There is also an SSPX poster who is or used to be a regular on here who constantly tells Catholics they are not "really" Catholic. So, as with any world religion, there are many different practices under the umbrella of various denominations, and much debate among them.

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