Word: hecker
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Father Isaac Thomas Hecker was in hot water. The 37-year-old Redemptorist had arrived in Rome to discuss with the head of his congregation a matter that was troubling some of its members in the U.S. -the best way to preach the Roman Catholic faith to Americans. Within a few days, he found himself expelled from the Redemptorist Congregation on the ground that his trip had violated his vows of obedience and poverty. For the next seven months, the worried priest hurried from prelate to prefect, pleading the need for an English-language mission to the U.S. At last...
American Methods. The Paulists' first century began with little more than Isaac Thomas Hecker's burning conviction that he, the son of German immigrants and a convert from Protestantism, was called to make new converts among the new people of a new country. He and his four companions-all converts and one (Father George Deshon) a West Point graduate-set about the task by making his society as American as they could...
...veteran male marksmen to do it. In Dallas, wearing her regular plaid shirt & tweed skirt, despite the heat, she won the 20-gauge (100 out of 100) and small gauge (98 out of 100) competitions, for a split of the major women's titles with Mrs. R. H. Hecker of Tucson, Ariz. Of the big 12-gauge gun, Carola says: "It begins to get very heavy and very long after a little while...
William C. Hecker '52 and Richard W. Hulbert '51 will defend the affirmative. This is one of the Council's most important debates, since it is at present in first place in the Ivy League. This is the first debate of the spring term...