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Originally Posted by Southern Presbyterian I don't think so, but the Holy Spirit is!  | Yeah, I was about to say "no, and neither can Calvinism".  | Amen and Amen (respectively).
Now, the historical fact is that the Roman Catholic Church has never experienced (or "produced") revival. Why is that? If there have been false revivals in the past (although they have been touted as Holy Spirit produced) and also genuine, what was the difference? Was it not a matter of the pure Gospel being taught and changing men's hearts and minds? If God the Spirit can produce revival regardless of doctrine, why not in the RC church?
So, in other words, how can we call it revival when men continue believing just as they had before? |
The RCC has "mini-revivals" when there's a purported "Mary sighting," such as at Lourdes or other places. These are false, though, for they are not of God. If they're not of God, they are accursed. These "gates of hell" will not prevail against the true church, nor will they persist. The devil has a short time in which to work.
Of course, you are exactly right.
Only the Holy Spirit can produce a true revival; only God can bring life from death. (Ezekiel 37; John 6:44
et alii.)
I don't think God is at work in the RCC, except in individual Catholics whom He will eventually bring out into the light of the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. I see no evidence whatsoever that He is at work in the institutional RCC, for it is the bailiwick of "the other guy."
Anecdotal "Exhibit A:" the "sermon" by "Fr." Pfleger last Sunday...
That was the kind of thing we used to hear in the RCC during Vietnam.
"Plus ca change, plus ca meme chose..." 
Margaret