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

Rev. John Henry Barrows: The Door He Opened

John Henry Barrows
About this Episode
Rev. Barrows organized the 1893 Parliament of Religions to demonstrate Christian superiority, but accidentally created the framework for American religious pluralism.
circa
1893

Jenkin Lloyd Jones and the Parliament of Religions

Jenkin Lloyd Jones
About this Episode
Jenkin Lloyd Jones organized the 1893 Parliament of Religions on a conviction that still matters: religious freedom is indivisible --- protect it for all or lose it for yourself.
circa
1893