Article: Isaac Hecker: An American Catholic.

Isaac Thomas Hecker (1819-88), the son of German immigrants, never associated himself with his parents' homeland or the Methodist church of his mother. Influenced by transcendentalism and other Romantic impulses circulating in the New England communalism of Brook Farm and Fruitlands, Hecker's spiritual Journey culminated in his conversion to Catholicism in 1844. As David J. O'Brien notes, Hecker's unique blend of mysticism and social activism led him to the Catholic faith; his conversion experience was a gradual response to an internal illumination rather than a particular event.

Deeply introspective and intensely spiritual, Hecker committed himself to the ...

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