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Saint Anthony of Padua, Franciscan Thaumaturgist

Posted on August 4, 2025 by theamericanplutarch

St. Anthony (1195-1231, Anno Domini) was a Franciscan thaumaturgist famous for his erudition, oratory, works of charity, and miracles. A native of Portugal, for a time he was a cleric with the monastic order of St. Augustine. In his early … Continue reading →

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Saint Athanasius: Saint and Doctor of the Church

Posted on August 4, 2025 by theamericanplutarch

Athanasius (196-373 AD) lived a long and varied life subject to philosophical, political, and theological controversies, violence, exile, and contentious relations with the most powerful rulers of his time, the Roman Emperors. Athanasius is well known for the Creed named … Continue reading →

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God’s Providence: What did Early American Religious Thinkers Believe about the Role of God in Human Affairs?

Posted on March 29, 2024 by theamericanplutarch

The eighteenth century in America was a time of awakening from the slumber of the past. Light was shed on the darkness of superstition, irrationality, autocracy, aristocratic privilege, and dogma. The individual, weighed down by the chains of time, institutions, … Continue reading →

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FAQs of Christianity

Posted on March 21, 2024 by theamericanplutarch

(Answers are Found in the Past) FAQ 1: What is a Christian? This initial question yields the many questions that follow because Christianity is an old religion, entering into its third millennium, based on an even older religion, that of … Continue reading →

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The Sanctity of Life

Posted on April 30, 2016 by theamericanplutarch

In my last post, I discussed Just War. To continue… The key to solving the issue, the plague, of war, just or unjust, is for humans to adapt a culture of life. We are raised from infancy in a culture … Continue reading →

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