The Charismatic Movement is a cross-denominational Christian renewal, beginning in the mid-twentieth century, that brought the gifts of the Holy Spirit (speaking in tongues, prophecy, healing and the rest), into the historic churches without asking their members to leave them. It is usually distinguished from classical Pentecostalism: where Pentecostalism produced separate denominations from the revivals of the early 1900s, the Charismatic Movement, from around 1960, saw the same experiences appear among Episcopalians, Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians and, from 1967, Roman Catholics, who mostly remained within their own communions. Its symbolic beginning is often dated to 1960, when Dennis Bennett, an Episcopal priest in Van Nuys, California, told his congregation that he had spoken in tongues.
The Catholic Charismatic Renewal, which emerged among students at Duquesne and Notre Dame in 1967, became one of its largest and most enduring streams and has been cautiously affirmed by the papacy. The defining conviction is that baptism in the Holy Spirit, a distinct empowering experience beyond conversion, and the charismata described in the New Testament are available to ordinary believers today, not confined to the apostolic age.
Sources The Century of the Holy Spirit: 100 Years of Pentecostal and Charismatic Renewal, 1901-2001Vinson Synan (ed.) with Malines Document I: Theological and Pastoral Orientations on the Catholic Charismatic RenewalLeon-Joseph Suenens