Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Francis Scott MacNutt (born 1925) is a former American Roman Catholic priest. Associated with the Catholic Charismatic Renewal he is an author of books on healing prayer, including Healing, The Healing Reawakening and Deliverance from Evil Spirits.MacNutt grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He earned a B.A. degree from Harvard University in 1948, and a M.A. degree in speech and drama from The Catholic University of America, Washington. In 1950, MacNutt joined the Dominican Order and was ordained to the priesthood in 1956. He has a Ph.D. degree in theology. He taught at a seminary in Dubuque, Iowa, for several years before moving back to St Louis in 1966 to become executive director of the National Catholic Preaching Conference.MacNutt learned of the charismatic movement through Pentecostal Protestant friends. As a young Roman Catholic priest, he was prominent and influential in the charismatic renewal in the 1960s, and during the 1970s he became associated with the practices of speaking in tongues and faith healing and appeared on television with Ruth Carter Stapleton, the sister of President Carter. In the late 1970s he was director of the Thomas Merton Foundation in St. Louis.He left the Dominicans to marry his wife, Judith Carole Sewell, a psychologist, in February 1980 and they settled in Clearwater, Florida, where they established Christian Healing Ministries that same year. His decision to marry was controversial in the Catholic charismatic movement and due to a requirement of clerical celibacy it resulted in automatic excommunication. Since the beginning of their marriage, the MacNutts have traveled widely, speaking and ministering together. In 1987, at the invitation of the Episcopal Diocese of Florida, they moved to Jacksonville, Florida, and expanded Christian Healing Ministries into a healing center for prayer ministry and teaching.In 1993 MacNutt received a dispensation from church authorities and their marriage was celebrated with a ceremony officiated by the Most Reverend John Snyder, Bishop of the Diocese of St. Augustine, at Marywood Retreat Center in Jacksonville. MacNutt and his wife have two grown children, Rachel and David.. }
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- Francis_MacNutt abstract "Francis Scott MacNutt (born 1925) is a former American Roman Catholic priest. Associated with the Catholic Charismatic Renewal he is an author of books on healing prayer, including Healing, The Healing Reawakening and Deliverance from Evil Spirits.MacNutt grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He earned a B.A. degree from Harvard University in 1948, and a M.A. degree in speech and drama from The Catholic University of America, Washington. In 1950, MacNutt joined the Dominican Order and was ordained to the priesthood in 1956. He has a Ph.D. degree in theology. He taught at a seminary in Dubuque, Iowa, for several years before moving back to St Louis in 1966 to become executive director of the National Catholic Preaching Conference.MacNutt learned of the charismatic movement through Pentecostal Protestant friends. As a young Roman Catholic priest, he was prominent and influential in the charismatic renewal in the 1960s, and during the 1970s he became associated with the practices of speaking in tongues and faith healing and appeared on television with Ruth Carter Stapleton, the sister of President Carter. In the late 1970s he was director of the Thomas Merton Foundation in St. Louis.He left the Dominicans to marry his wife, Judith Carole Sewell, a psychologist, in February 1980 and they settled in Clearwater, Florida, where they established Christian Healing Ministries that same year. His decision to marry was controversial in the Catholic charismatic movement and due to a requirement of clerical celibacy it resulted in automatic excommunication. Since the beginning of their marriage, the MacNutts have traveled widely, speaking and ministering together. In 1987, at the invitation of the Episcopal Diocese of Florida, they moved to Jacksonville, Florida, and expanded Christian Healing Ministries into a healing center for prayer ministry and teaching.In 1993 MacNutt received a dispensation from church authorities and their marriage was celebrated with a ceremony officiated by the Most Reverend John Snyder, Bishop of the Diocese of St. Augustine, at Marywood Retreat Center in Jacksonville. MacNutt and his wife have two grown children, Rachel and David.".