Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Gr.

[GREEK] gift

(Eccl.)

A miraculously given power, as of healing, speaking foreign languages without instruction, etc., attributed to some of the early Christians.

charism ‎(plural charisms or charismata)

(Christianity, theology) A power or authority, generally of a spiritual nature, believed to be a freely given gift by the grace of God.
- 2007 April 14, Peter Steinfels, “A Catholic Debate Mounts on the Meaning of ‘Just War’”, in New York Times:
  Reviewing the prudential warnings and moral qualms issued by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops , “it is hard not to conclude,” the editors write, “that the bishops’ charism, rather than the president’s, has better served the nation.”