Isaac Thomas Hecker (December 18, 1819 - December 22, 1888) was an American Roman Catholic Priest and founder of the Paulist Fathers, a North American religious

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 sign

Five essays offering analysis of Hecker's thought from the perspectives of church history, political science, theology, and psychology. +

The United States has a long history of religious pluralism, and yet Americans have often thought that people’s faith determines their eternal destinies. The

At the close of the Spanish-American War the United States found itself in possession of a colonial empire. The role played by the American Catholic Church in i