|
Search over 100 encyclopedias and dictionaries: |
Research categories | Follow us on Twitter |
Research categories
View all topics in the newsView all reference sources at Encyclopedia.com |
|||
|
Paulist Fathers
Paulist Fathers American society of Roman Catholic priests, officially named the Society of Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle (Latin abbr., C.S.P.). It was founded (1858) by Isaac Hecker , who envisioned a group of priests who would work for the conversion of Americans in ways appropriate... Read more |
|
John Mercer Langston
John Mercer Langston (1829-1897) Sources A FRICAN AMERICAN ADVOCATE Opportunities and Constraints.John Mercer Langston spent his life challenging racial boundaries and contributing to their breakdown. His father was a plantation owner who scandalized his... Read more |
|
American revolutionaries
... Read more |
|
American Mensa
... Read more |
|
American English
... Read more |
|
Isaac Thomas Hecker
Isaac Thomas Hecker 1819-88, American Roman Catholic priest, founder of the Paulist Fathers; son of Prussian immigrants. Feeling the general discontent of his day in the dying Puritanism of New England, he associated with the transcendentalists, stayed for a short time at Brook Farm, and was a... Read more |
|
Native Americans (Great Plains)
... Read more |
|
Muhammad Ali (American boxer)
... Read more |
|
Delawares (Native Americans)
... Read more |
|
Native American gaming
... Read more |
|
|
BETWEEN THE LINES: A Cautionary Tale From The Church
...36 years. Father John Geogahn...to allow Father Geogahn to...aware of the priest's long...entitled, "Sins of the Fathers: Pedophile priestsand the challenge to the American ... |