The Catholic World

Father Hecker is the founder, and was till lately the director, of the Catholic publication society of New York. He also founded in 1865 the "Catholic World," the chief Roman Catholic magazine on the American continent, and still (1887) continues to edit it. His works include "Questions of the Soul" (New York, 1855); "Aspirations of Nature " (1857); "Catholicity in the United States" (1879); and "Catholics and Protestants Agreeing on the School Question" (1881). His last writings are a series of papers on Orestes A. Brownson, in the " Catholic World."

The following is a list of reprints from "The Catholic World". Enjoy!!


ØThe Abiding Power of Dante ØThe Achievements of Pius X ØAdelaide Anne Procter
ØAfter Seven Centuries: Catharism and Bolshevism ØAlfred the Great, Patron of Learning ØAnatomy of Selfishness
ØThe Ancient Saints of God - A French Officer's of God ØThe Angel Beautiful ØAngels and Their Ministries
ØAnnunciation in Art ØThe Anonymous Poet of Poland: Sigmund Krasinski ØAnswer to Difficulties
ØAn Apostle of Unity: Fr. Basil W. Maturin ØApostolic Authority at Work ØApproving the Better Things
ØArt is Long and Time is Fleeting ØThe Art of Lying ØAscetism: An Unpopular Apology
ØThe Assent of Socialism ØThe Assumption of the Blessed Virgin ØThe Atonement in St Paul
ØAubrey de Vere in His Prose Work ØA Background to Life ØThe Better Part
ØBlack Robes and Brown in California ØA Blessed Daughter of the People - St Catherine of Siena ØBlessed Oliver Plunket
ØBlindfolding the Mind ØBolshevism and Philosophy ØA Brave Priest: Abbé M. Emery
ØCapitalism and Christian Democracy ØCardinal Mercier Primate of Belgium ØCardinal Newman and Edmund Burke
ØCardinal Newman and Gilbert K Chesterton ØThe Cardinal of Spain Francisco de Cisneros de Ximenes ØThe Care of the Dependent Poor
ØThe Case of Socialism v. The Catholic Church and the United States ØThe Catholic Church and the Italian Renaissance ØThe Catholic Church in China
ØThe Catholic Church in Norway ØThe Catholic Church the Parent of Republics ØThe Catholic Conscience of History
ØCatholic Literature as a World-Force ØA Catholic Principle and the Criticism of Socialism ØCatholic Principles and English Literature
ØThe Catholic Revival in Denmark and Iceland ØCatholicism and Nationality ØCatholicism in the Crucible
ØThe Catholicity of the Church ØCatholics and the Revolution ØCelibacy of the Priesthood
ØThe Celtic Element in Philosophy ØCervantes and His Work ØA Challenge to the Time-Spirit
ØChampion and His Labors: Hilaire Belloc ØThe Chariot Racers ØG. K. Chesterton's "The Ballad of the White Horse"
ØThe Christ ØChristendom and the Turk ØChristian Art - Raphael
ØChristian Doctrine in the Primary Grades ØThe Christian Ideal of the Home ØThe Christian Name
ØChristian Unity ØFrom Christmas to Christ ØChristology and Criticism
ØChurch Song in its Relation to Church Life ØChurch Unity and the Papacy ØThe Church and the Churches
ØThe Church and the Workingman ØThe Church in Cuba ØThe Church the Champion of Marriage
ØThe Church's Moving Picture Show The Church Calendar ØThe Classical Element in Shakespeare ØThe Coign of Vantage
ØColor -- Its Poetry and Prose ØCompleting the Reformation ØThe Conservative Mind
ØConstantinople Against Rome ØThe Conversion of Dr Orestes Brownson ØThe Conversion of the Anglican Benedictines
ØA Convert Scientist and His Work: Nicholas Stensen ØA Convert's View of Catholic Literature ØThe Cost of Christian Living
ØCoventry Patmore ØCoventry Patmore: Points of View ØCoventry Patmore's "Unknown Eros"
ØThe Crucifix ØCruel Nature ØCutting Truth in Two
ØDante and His Times ØDante and His Celtic Precursors ØDante's Divina Commedia
ØDante's Theory of Papal Politics ØDarwin and "Darwinism" and Certain Other "Isms" ØDe Smet in the Oregon Country
ØA Debt to Newman ØDefining Dostoevsky ØThe Desert Type
ØDevelopment, Not Evolution ØThe Development of Dogma ØDevotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
ØA Dialogue ØThe Disillusionment of a Convert ØThe Disintegration of Socialism
ØThe Distributive State ØThe Divine Authority of the Church ØThe Duties of the Citizen
ØThe Early Jesuit Missions in Canada ØEcce Homo ØEchoes of the Canticle of Canticles in Medieval Literature
ØThe Encyclical on Modernism ØThe End of a Long Journey Ø"The Enlarging Conception of God"
ØEugenics and Catholic Teaching ØEvil of Poverty ØAn Exiled Artist
ØThe Fallacy of "Bettering One's Position" ØFamous Fountains in Palestine ØFather Hecker's Farewell Sermon
ØFather Serra and the Indians ØFather Tabb ØFather Tyrrell's View of Revealed Truth
ØFather William Flete, Hermit ØA Fighting Pacifist: General Joseph Haller ØFirm Foundations
ØFra Innocenzo's Crucifix ØFrancis Thompson ØFrancis Thompson: His Life and Work
ØFrancis Thompson, Poet ØFrancis Thompson: Poet and Mystic ØFrancis Thompson: A Poet's Poet
ØFrancis Thompson's "An Anthem of Earth" ØFrederick J Kinsman's "Apologia Pro Vita Sua" ØFreedom of Speech in War Time
ØFrequent Communion for Young and Old ØFrom Doubt to Faith ØFrom the Dark Ages
ØFrontiersmen of Orthodoxy ØThe Function of the Will in Religious Assent ØFundamental Relations of Charity
ØG.K. Chesterton: A New Aspect ØG.K. Chesterton ØGalicia and the Russian Church
ØA Garden of Mexican Song ØGenoa the Superb ØGerald Hopkins: An Epitaph and an Appreciation
ØGerald Hopkins and His Poetry ØGlimpses of a Great Catholic Soul - Louis Veuillot ØThe Glories of the Catholic Church
ØThe Glory of the Human Body ØGod is Our Aid - A Christmas Story of \'67 ØThe Government of the Church in the 1st Century
ØThe Habit and Gift of Wisdom ØHalf-Converts ØHamlet's Madness and German Criticism
ØHand in Hand ØHappiness in Purgatory ØA Heartless Sin of Omission
ØHedwige, Queen of Poland ØHilaire Belloc, Initiator ØHis Eminence, James Cardinal Gibbons
ØHis Neighbor ØHis Outstretched Hand: Virtue of Hope ØThe History of Philosophy as Applied to the Church
ØThe History of Religions ØThe Holy Spirit and the Christian Life ØThe Homecoming of Ronald A. Knox
ØHow I Became a Catholic ØHow Ireland Kept the Faith ØHow a Bible Student Came to be a Catholic
ØHow to Read St John's Gospel ØHuman Authority of the Church ØThe Human Environments of the Catholic Faith
ØHuman Nature and the Historians ØHumbert's Campaign in Ireland ØImagination and Emotion in Literature
ØImmanence and Religion ØImpressions of Islam in Constantinople ØIn Port
ØIn Sanctuary ØThe Incarnation and the World Crisis ØThe Inclusiveness of Chaucer
ØInner Life of St Thomas Aquinas ØThe Inspiration of Holy Scripture ØThe Intellectual Claims of the Catholic Church
ØIs Hamlet Autobiography? ØIs Satan the Hero of Paradise Lost? ØIslam
ØJames Cardinal Gibbons: An Interpretation ØJeanne D'Arc ØJoseph in Egypt a Type of Christ
ØJoyce Kilmer ØThe Justification of Luther by History Alone ØKeeping Up the Protestant Tradition
ØThe Land Where Dreams Come True: The Bay of Salerno ØIn the Land of the Jesuit Martyrs ØThe Last Crusade: The Battle of Lepanto
ØLaughter of the Saints ØA Lay Sermon on Truth Ø"Lead, Kindly Light": Its Sources and Its Meaning
ØThe Least of the Little Ones ØThe Legend of Pope Joan ØThe Legend of St. Michael and the Hermit
ØLet All the People Praise the Lord ØLiberalism and Faith ØLife and Literature
ØThe Life of Cardinal Newman ØSketches Drawn from the Life of St. Paula ØLife's Decision: T.W. Allies
ØThe Light of Asia and the Light of the World ØLiterature and Morality ØLittle Flower and Literature
ØOn the Loneliness of Priests ØLoss and Gain in the Church ØLove, Marriage and Divorce
ØLove is of God ØThe Love of God ØThe Love of the Mystics
ØLucifer's Ear ØThe Lustre of "The Light of Asia" ØMacbeth - A Study in Sin
ØMaking Dogma Useless ØMaking a Virtue of Necessity ØMartha
ØA Martyr of Martyrs ØMartyrs and Confessors in Christ ØThe Martyrs of Africa, 208 A.D.
ØMary of the Blessed Sunshine ØA Master of Sacred Eloquence ØThe Mathematical Harmonies of the Universe
ØThe Meaning of God in Human Experience ØMeasure for Measure - A Study ØA Memorable Easter
ØThe Merit of Good Works ØA Merry Christmas ØMight of the Inward Man
ØThe Misfortunes of Mr. Jones ØMiss Mattie's Garden ØThe Missionary Outlook in Canada
ØThe Mission's Last Tenant ØA Modern Saint: M. Philibert Vrau ØThe Modern Theories and Moral Disaster
ØMonks Among the Mongols ØMontmartre and the Sacred Heart ØThe Moral Obligation of the Civil Law
ØMore Light on "The Light of Asia" ØMother Mary Veronica of the Poor Clares ØMothers of the Saints
ØMount Carmel and the Carmelites ØMy Chalice Indeed ØMystery of Perseverance
ØMystery of Rodin ØMystery of Suffering ØThe Mystical Body of Christ
ØThe Narrow Road ØNearly Two Thousand Years Ago ØNecessity Versus Art
ØA Neglected Great Poem Patmore's "Tamerton Church-Tower" ØThe New French Lourdes ØA New Road from Agnosticism to Christianity
ØA New Theory of Political Sovereignty Ø"The Newman of Norway" Knud Krogh-Tonning ØNewman's Devotion to Our Lady
ØNietzsche, Tolstoy and the Sermon on the Mount ØNotable French Convert: Paul Loewengard ØThe Note of Apostolicity
ØThe Obediences of Catholicism ØOntario's Pioneer Priest - Fr. Joseph Le Caron ØThe Organic Conception of the Church
ØThe Originality of the Christian Doctrine of Life ØOur Lady in Art ØOur Lady of the Woods
ØOur Lady's Roses ØOur Past ØThe Papacy in the Nineteenth Century
ØPassages from the Diary of an Anglican Clergyman ØPassing the Love of Woman ØThe Patriot Saint of Switzerland - Blessed Nicholas of Flüe
ØPearl of the House of Aragon -- St Elizabeth ØPercy Bysshe Shelley ØPersonal Character of the Renaissance Pontiffs
ØPersonal Influence of Cardinal Newman ØPersonal Reminiscences ØPersonnel of the Industrial Relations Commission
ØPicturesqueness and Piety ØThe Pillar of Cloud ØPillars of Salt
ØThe Place of Fear ØThe Poet of the Blessed Sacrament: Don Pedro Calderon Ø"The Poet of the Return of God"
ØThe Poet of the Supernatural ØThe Poetry of Aubrey de Vere ØThe Poetry of Hugh Francis Blunt
ØThe Poetry of J. Corson Miller ØThe Poetry of Katharine Tynan Hinkson ØPoetry of a Priest: John Bannister Tabb
ØPoints of View ØThe Poor ØPope Benedict XV
ØPope Pius XI ØPopular Objections to Papal Infallibility ØA Portrait of St. Anselm
ØThe Powers and Albania ØThe Preparation for Christianity in the Six Centuries Before Christ ØThe Priest
ØThe Principle of Papal Protection ØPrivate Ownership and Socialism ØThe Propaganda of Paganism
ØProperty -- Its Rights and Duties ØThe Purpose and Functions of the State ØThe Real Romance of Life
ØRecreation and Its Relation to Delinquency ØReinforcement of the Bond of Faith ØThe Relations of Church and State
ØReligious Poetry of Paul Claudel ØThe Results of the Reformation ØFather Tyrrell's View of Revealed Truth
ØThe Revelation of an Artist in Literature ØThe Rightness of G. K. Chesterton by Marion Couthouy Smith ØThe Rights of the Citizen
ØDr Brownson's Road to the Church ØThe Roman Legacy to Britain ØRome or Reason
ØA Rule of Life ØRussian Church and the Revolution ØSafe to Sea
ØSaloniki - Where St. Paul Preached ØSanctity and Development ØSanctity and Racial Betterment
ØThe Sanctity of the Church ØSayings of the Fathers of the Desert ØSayings of the Saints
ØScholastic Criticism and Apologetics ØThe Scourging and the Crowning with Thorns in Art ØThe Second Century List of the Books of theNew Testament
ØThe Security of Democracy ØA Seeker After Truth ØShakespeare and the Art of Music
ØShakespeare's Sonnets: To Whom Dedicated? ØThe Shepherd of All Christendom ØThe Shoe in Symbolism
ØThe Silver Lining ØSir Thomas More, Saint and Humorist ØThe Slaughter of the First-Born
ØSocial Aspects of Rights and Obligations ØSocialism v. The Catholic Church and the U.S. ØSoldier Songs of a Soldier's Daughter
ØSome Characteristics of Cardinal Gibbons ØSome Old Time Devotions in Time of War ØSome Visitors at Cannes
ØThe Son of God, Archetypal Beauty ØThe Son of Man ØThe Soul of Tuscany
Ø"Special Creation" ØThe Spell of Rome ØSpiritual Development vs. Materialism and Socialism
ØThe Spiritual Factor in Economic Reform ØThe Spiritual Note in the Renaissance ØSpiritual Reading
ØThe Squire of Saint Louis ØSt Agnes, A Type and a Contrast ØSt. Augustine, the Student of Holy Scripture
ØSt. Catharine of Genoa ØSt Catherine of Siena ØSaint Clare and Holy Poverty
ØSt Francis and Socialism ØSaint Paul ØSt. Paul and the Holy Eucharist
ØSt. Paul on Mars' Hill; the Meeting of Christianity and Greek Philosophy ØSt. Peter, First Bishop of Rome ØSt. Peter's Roman Pontificate
ØSt Teresa ØSt. Thomas Becket ØSt Vincent de Paul and the Sisters of Charity
ØSaint for Soldiers: St Katherine of Alexandria ØStonor Park and its Martyrs ØStory of a Conversion
ØThe Story of a Mission ØSaints of the Desert ØSaints or Spirits?
ØThe Study of Holy Scripture ØSuccessors to Socialism ØThe Supernatural
ØThe Supreme Problem ØThe Supreme Sacrifice - René Bériot ØThe Sweetness of Blessed Thomas More
ØThe Symbolism of Dante ØThe Symbolism of the Church ØThe Tempest
ØTeresian Poets ØThree Catholic Poets: Southwell, Habington, and Crashaw Ø"Till the Shadows Retire"
ØThe Time Spirit of Music ØThe Traditional Idea of God & Its Modern Substitutes ØThe Treasure of the Messias
ØTreatise on Purgatory ØThe Tree of Help ØThe Trinity in Simple English
ØThe True Man of the Times ØTrue and False Friends of Reason ØThe Two Sides of Catholicism
ØThe Unconsidered Remainder ØUnity ØThe Unity of the Visible Church
ØThe Universal Genius of St Thomas ØUt Quid Perditio Hæc? ØVenice
ØThe Visitor of Christmas Eve ØVocation ØThe Voltaire of Portugal
ØThe War Against Religion in France ØWar and Pain ØWas the Son of Man Brusque to His Mother?
ØThe Way of Happiness ØWhat Think Ye of Christ ØWhat is Dogma?
ØWhat is True Education? ØWhat's Wrong With The World ØWhat Was the Reformation?
ØWhere the Nations Have Knelt - St Peter's Basilica ØWhy God Became Man ØThe Will to Achieve
ØWilliam Shakespeare, Poet and Dramatist ØThe Witness of Protestantism to Catholic Truth ØThe Women of Shakespeare
ØThe Word-Painting of Dante ØThe Worth of the Commonplace ØThe Youth of Saint Paul