Rachel macnutt
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The late Dr. Francis MacNutt (April 22, 1925 – January 12, 2020) was an honors graduate of Harvard University, held a Masters degree in Fine Arts from Catholic University of America, and a Ph.D. in theology from the Aquinas Institute of Theology. In 1974, Francis wrote the ground-breaking book, Healing, which sold nearly a million copies. Francis founded Merton House in St. Louis and co-founded the Association of Christian Therapists in 1976. He married Judith Sewell in 1980 and together they founded Christian Healing Ministries the same year, the goal of which is to make Christian Healing Prayer a way of life in families, churches and medical professions. Francis also wrote The Power to Heal, The Prayer that Heals, Overcome by the Spirit, Deliverance from Evil Spirits, Can Homosexuality Be Healed?, The Healing Reawakening, and The Practice of Healing Prayer: A How-To Guide for Catholics. He, with Judith, co-authored the book Praying for Your Unborn Child.
Francis was a teacher, pioneer, and theologian instrumental in restoring the healing ministry to the Chur
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Introducing Francis and Judith MacNutt, by William De Arteaga
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Now in his eighties, Dr. Francis MacNutt has been one of the giants of the Christian healing ministry for almost four decades. His books Healing (1974), Deliverance from Evil Spirits (1995), and Overcome by the Spirit (1990) are, I believe, still the best introductions to healing, deliverance, and manifestations of the Spirit. His writings have a simplicity and profundity to them that serve as an example and a grace to the whole church. With his wife Judith he founded Christian Healing Ministries (CHM) out of which have come some of the most profound and balanced teaching on healing, inner healing and deliverance.
Raised in the Depression era in a wealthy and distinguished family, he went to Harvard University and then served in the Navy as a medic during WWII. MacNutt converted to Roman Catholicism as an adult and entered the Dominican Order to become one of its outstanding preachers and writers. As a Dominican monk he first encountered the Spirit-filled healing ministry o
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Francis Augustus MacNutt
American diplomat and Catholic writer
Papal MarquisFrancis Augustus MacNutt (February 15, 1863 – December 30, 1927) was an Indiana-born Catholic writer, and American diplomat, who later became a high ranking Vatican official.
Biography
Francis Augustus MacNutt was also for some time an American diplomat and a prolific writer of plays and histories. MacNutt married Margaret Ogden, grand-daughter of Clement Clarke Moore who wrote the famous Christmas poem The Night Before Christmas, and they established themselves in Rome at the Palazzo Pamphilj in Piazza Navona. Their home was the center of social life for the Roman nobility and senior Catholic Church officials. Today, it is the Embassy of Brazil.
MacNutt was highly influential in Vatican circles and was a close friend to three popes, Leo XIII, Pius X, and Benedict XV, and also to Cardinals Rafael Merry del Val and Mariano Rampolla, both Cardinal Secretaries of State. His influence was also known in the Austrian Imperial Court, where he established close ties with the imperial family in
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