Isaac Hecker: The Question He Refused to Stop Asking

Isaac Hecker
About this Episode
The story of Isaac Hecker, founder of the Paulists, and his insistence that spiritual and civic life are not separate --- and why that question now belongs to the whole world.
circa
1858

Watching in the Dark

Angelo Secchi
About this Episode
The Vatican Observatory's centuries-long tradition of astronomical research reveals that wonder and service, science and faith, are expressions of the same love.
circa
1860

The Ballroom and the Debt

Antoine Chevrier
About this Episode
The story of Antoine Chevrier, who turned an abandoned Lyon ballroom into a shelter, seeing not charity but restitution owed to the poor.
circa
1860

Fanny Crosby: The Song That Wasn't Lost

Fanny Crosby
About this Episode
Harmonia tells the story of hymn writer Fanny Crosby, whose Bowery mission work refused to write off society's most discarded souls.
circa
1880

The Woman Who Would Not Look Away

Anna Kingsford
About this Episode
Anna Kingsford earned a medical degree in Paris without harming a single animal, insisting that science and conscience explore the same reality.
circa
1880