catholic converts

Isaac Thomas Hecker was the prototype nineteenth-century American. He was an idealist and a visionary, a believer in the "rightness" of the American experiment. A utopian at heart, Hecker sampled life in New England's transcendentalist communes, later entering the Catholic Church where he began a new community that was founded on the ideals of freedom and personal initiative.To Catholic intransigents he was an embarrassment, to American pragmatists he was a curiosity. But the present age has witnessed a renewal of spiritual seeking that characterized Hecker's own journey, and the church he swore allegiance to has begun to see things the way he did. The time is ripe for this honest and comprehensive account of Isaac Hecker's fascinating story.

Dorothy Day is no saint. She lived hard, made mistakes, endured the consequences. But the unquenchable fire burning within her could not be contained. Dorothy wanted to make a difference. This is the true story of the "American Mother Teresa.".

Biography of Dorothy Day, discussing the two major forces that shaped her life--human need and spiritual devotion--leading her to found the "Catholic Way" newspaper, and open shelters, called hospitality houses, to care for the poor.