Fr. Isaac Hecker deserves to be counted as the most significant Catholic figure in nineteenth-century America. His life and work have been compared with those of John Henry Newman: from his youth he was a spiritual seeker convinced that God had a work for him to do. His search led him through various Protestant denominations, through Transcendentalism, where he became friends with the leading American thinkers of the age, and ultimately to the Catholic Church and the priesthood, and to the found...
The life of Fr. Isaac Hecker, with illustrations. Fr. Hecker, founder of the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle, deserves to be counted as the most significant Catholic figure in nineteenth-century America.
Meditations using ordinary language and everyday experience to assist young people in developing a pattern of prayer, reflection, and daily meditation.
