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Vatican City, Jul 26, 2014 \/ 06:02 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Pope Francis\u2019 upcoming encounter with the evangelical Christian pastor Giovanni Traettino continues the path of dialogue he has walked with evangelical denominations since his time in Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n

\tPope Francis met Traettino in 2006, while he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires, at the third fraternal meeting of the Renewed Communion of Evangelicals and Catholics in the Spirit.<\/p>\n

\tOn that occasion, Cardinal Bergoglio gave a speech on themes such as God\u2019s embrace and the wounds of Christ. Kneeling down, he received the blessing of pastors, priests, and lay people who attended the meeting.
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\n\tIn his intervention, Bergoglio prayed that \u201cthe Father close our mouth with an embrace and unite us more and more.\u201d
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\n\tOther participants at the meeting included Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher of the Pontifical Household and a member of Renewal in the Spirit, the most widespread Catholic charismatic movement; Matteo Calisi, the then-president of the Catholic Fraternity of Charismatic Covenant Communities and Fellowships; and Giovanni Traettino, a leader of the Evangelical Church of the Reconciliation in Italy.
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\n\tBefore he supported the Charismatic movement, Cardinal Bergoglio was indeed very sceptical of it.<\/p>\n

\tPope Francis himself told the story of his \u201cconversion\u201d during the flight back from World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro on July 28, 2013.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cBack at the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s, I had no time for charismatics,\u201d the Pope said. \u201cOnce, speaking about them, I said: \u2018These people confuse a liturgical celebration with samba lessons.\u2019 Now I regret it. Now I think that this movement does much good for the Church overall.\u201d
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\n\tAccording to Pino Scufaro, coordinator of Renewal in the Spirit in Argentina, Catholic charismatic movements in Argentina \u201cstarted spreading more than 40 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe first communities of prayer were initiated by Trinitarian and Jesuits religious,\u201d he said.
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\n\tThat kind of spirituality was \u201cunknown to the Catholic Church,\u201d yet \u201cquickly and spontaneously grew, even if sometimes bearing the imperfections of every new experience,\u201d Scufaro said.<\/p>\n

\tThis is why Bergoglio, who was Jesuit provincial in Argentina at the time, \u201chad to reproach the charismatic prayer leaders,\u201d Scufaro said.
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\n\tWith time, Bergoglio changed his mind, and started looking attentively to the charismatic movements, both Catholic and Protestant.
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\n\tThe majority of Charismatic movements have Protestant roots. Pentecostalism<\/a> is seemingly the real star of the show in Latin America. A 2006 Pew Forum survey found that 45 percent of Brazilian Pentecostals were converts from Catholicism.
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\n\tBergoglio soon questioned the reason for Pentecostals\u2019 increase. He found that the reason was their enthusiasm in witnessing the faith.
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\n\tBergoglio\u2019s reflections were also nurtured by the first meaningful and structured experience of Catholic-Pentecostal dialogue, which took place in Italy during the 1980s with the encouragement of St. John Paul II, and which in 1995 resulted in the joint document \u201cEvangelicals and Catholics Together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe document was not unanimously appreciated, but the sociologist Massimo Introvigne has stressed that \u201cit was a signal that many things have changed,\u201d even if \u201cthe dialogue between Catholics and Protestant Pentecostals is still problematic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tPope Francis took part in the convocation of the Catholic charismatic movement Renewal in the Spirit in Rome June 1. He then met some U.S. evangelical leaders on June 4. He had a three-hour meeting, including lunch, with some of the most prominent American evangelical leaders June 24.<\/p>\n

\tPope Francis has prioritized dialogue with leaders of smaller evangelical denominations, such as Traettino, who gained political experience in the ranks of the Italian Communist Party before converting to Pentecostalism and founding his community.
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\n\tThe Vaticanista Sandro Magister underscored in a July 23 article for \u201cL\u2019Espresso\u201d that the Pope\u2019s meeting with Traettino in Caserta is not \u201can isolated episode\u201d but \u201cpart of a broader effort that Pope Francis is making to win the favor of the worldwide leaders of those \u2018evangelical\u2019 and Pentecostal movements which especially in Latin America are the most fearsome competitor of the Catholic Church, from which they are snatching enormous masses of the faithful.\u201d<\/p>\n

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