I'm looking for information about glossolalia, the gift of tongues. My basic understanding: It's not a gift from the Holy Spirit unless there is another person there to interpret it, the "tongue" must be an actual language, and it's often a dead one.
This understanding seems consistent with the small entry in Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary. It also seems consistent with the 1917 Catholic Encyclopedia that New Advent has online:
Faithful adherence to the text of Sacred Scripture makes it obligatory to reject those opinions which turn the charism of tongues into little more than infantile babbling (Eichhorn, Schmidt, Neander), incoherent exclamations (Meyer), pythonic utterances (Wiseler), or prophetic demonstrations of the archaic kind (see 1 Samuel 19:20, 24).
I'm looking for correction, clarification, and more information. Emails, links, and comments below are welcome. Note: I'm not looking for any information about ebonics, twelve-pack tongue, or other phenomena that might mimic glossolalia.
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"And I get Playboy for the articles." Police in Iowa say a man caught with a large quantity of marijuana claimed that he planned to turn it into compost.
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Isn't this comforting: cougars in the backyard, drinking from the children pool. If you haven't heard, incidentally, Michigan has cougars now. The only question is whether they've settled here or were set loose by freaks with odd tastes in pets. The government (DNR) is denying it, but a lot of people have claimed to see them. The best story: A man hit a cougar with his car. He called it in (don't know who he called). With amazing promptness, a crew showed up and cleaned it up and took off. He said it was like a scene from Men in Black. The theory around here is that the government, for whatever reason, doesn't want to admit that Michigan has a cougar issue.
