I read through the document. While it basically calls for the recognizing of movements within the Church (as they are gifts inspired by the Holy Spirit), it also calls those movements to recognize the hierarchy of the Church and the authority of the bishops (which is something that is often disregarded). It gives some criteria to recognize if a movement is truly a charismatic gift (not to be confused with the Charismatic Catholic Renewal), mainly:
1) It calls Christians to holiness.
2) It is committed to spread the Gospel.
3) It educates in the faith and obeys the Magisterium.
4) It shows a real communion with the Church.
5) It is open to the complementarity of other charismatic elements in the Church (it cooperates and doesn't promote sectarism).
6) It accepts trials, sufferings, tensions... in essence, the cross.
7) There is a presence of spiritual fruits within the movement.
8) It's evangelization has also a social dimension.
Although this is mainly aimed at new movements flourishing in the Church, especially the
ad experimentum movements approved in each diocese, I could as well relate it to religious congregations and orders that sometime act turning their backs on the hierarchy. Of course, just as a Jesuit priest who happens to be one of my teachers says, "hierarchy in the Church is not set to stop the movements of the Holy Spirit, but to discern and approve them, so it doesn't exist to stop the initiative of the different gifts within the Church, but to guide them under the umbrella of a Church that is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic."
The document is also in direct relationship to
what the Pope recently said about the erection of new diocesan institutes of consecrated life. In the end, it seems a matter of order and unity in the Church.
