The Towers of Babylon.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)

First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life | March 1, 2006| | Copyright

Omitted among the authorities on the relationship between the Church and America cited by Father Richard John Neuhaus in his fine essay "Our American Babylon" (December 2005) is Isaac Thomas Hecker. The mission of Father Hecker, founder of the Paulists, America's first Catholic religious society of men, can perhaps best be summarized by the words inscribed on his tombstone: "In the union of Catholic faith and American civilization ... a future for the Church brighter than any past." He believed that a "new awakening" of intense responding to the Holy Spirit would bring about ...

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