Category Archives: God’s Providence

American Catholics

Posted on December 22, 2025 by theamericanplutarch

Understand the role, impact, and lasting legacy that Catholicism has had in North America from European contact to today. Beginning with North America’s contact with three imperialist powers (Spain, France, and England), this narrative account tells the story of how … Continue reading →

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Junipero Serra: Work and Prayer

Posted on September 11, 2025 by theamericanplutarch

Franciscan Junipero Serra (1713-1784), one of the founders of Catholicism in California, should he miraculously walk the paths of California today (on tired, sore, bare feet, for he believed in the practice of mortification), he would be astonished at the … Continue reading →

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Louis Hennepin (1626-1704), Missionary of Hope

Posted on September 11, 2025 by theamericanplutarch

When a person thinks back to the colonial American past imagining what the first Catholic missionaries who braved the elements, journeyed into the forests, and canoed down American rivers, must have been like, they are thinking of such a person … Continue reading →

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All Things are Possible

Posted on August 27, 2017 by theamericanplutarch

Recent conflict and protests in America, about statues and monuments recalling troubling events in the past, seem to be dividing a country that clearly needs uniting. Those who focus on division rather than unity seem to think that all things … Continue reading →

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Historical Sites along the Maine Coast: Kittery to York

Posted on July 13, 2017 by theamericanplutarch

Kittery, Maine, situated on the northern shores of the Piscataqua River, was a home to seamen and fishermen. Most such men of the salt sea were not well known in their own time and forgotten today. An exception was Lieutenant … Continue reading →

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Independence: Disorder in a Democracy

Posted on July 4, 2017 by theamericanplutarch

In today’s day, we are confronted with disorder, almost chaos and anarchy at times. How do we bring order out of a disorderly situation? The concluding years of the American Revolution in the 1780s provides us with an example. The … Continue reading →

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Animals and Time

Posted on June 28, 2017 by theamericanplutarch

Do animals have an experience of time similar to humans? I believe so. I propose that each life, whether human or animal, experiences time and the passage of time, hence history, individually, uniquely. It is difficult for a human to … Continue reading →

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The Answer Is: Power, Love, Self-Control

Posted on October 2, 2016 by theamericanplutarch

I once belonged to a group of men, the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, most of whom were of the Anglican tradition, who met weekly to discuss Christianity, and to share a meal as well as Eucharist or Morning Prayer from … Continue reading →

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And God Saw Every Thing that He had made, and Behold, it was Very Good

Posted on July 6, 2016 by theamericanplutarch

The title of this post comes from Genesis, 1:31, the final verse of the first chapter of the Old Testament. This final verse provides commentary on the sixth day of the Creation, in which God had, after the creation of … Continue reading →

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Blessed are the Poor?

Posted on May 15, 2016 by theamericanplutarch

In the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, as recorded in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, Jesus taught his disciples as well as others what he considered to be the most important lessons by which to live. Matthew and Luke … Continue reading →

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