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The Paulist Fathers, officially named the Missionary Society of Saint Paul the Apostle (Latin: Societas Sacerdotum Missionariorum a Sancto Paulo Apostolo), abbreviated CSP, is a Catholic society of apostolic life of Pontifical Right for men founded in New York City in 1858 by Isaac Hecker in collaboration with George Deshon, Augustine Hewit, and Francis A. Baker.
Francis Asbury Baker was born in Baltimore, Maryland on March 30, 1820, the son Samuel Baker, a prominent physician and University of Maryland Professor of Medicine. His paternal grandfather, William Baker was a German immigrant; his paternal grandmother, a woman of Irish origin.
Paulist Productions is an independent Catholic film production company founded in 1960 by the Paulist priest Father Ellwood "Bud" Kieser. The Paulists describe the company as a "creator of films and television programs that uncover God’s presence in the contemporary human experience".
Paulists, or Paulines, is the name used for Roman Catholic orders and congregations under the patronage of Paul of Thebes the First Hermit. From the time that the abode and virtues of Paul of Thebes were revealed to Antony the Abbot, various communities of hermits adopted him as their patron saint.
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Paulist Fathers - The Paulist Fathers' "mother church" is St. Paul the Apostle Church [11] at West 60th Street and Columbus Avenue in Manhattan. The Paulist founder, the Servant of God Isaac Thomas Hecker, C.S.P., is entombed inside St. Paul's Church. The Paulist Fathers have served the Archdiocese of New York since their founding in 1858. [12]
WLWL was first licensed on August 12, 1925 [3] at 415 West Fifty-ninth Street in New York City. [4] The owners were the Missionary Society of Saint Paul the Apostle, a Roman Catholic evangelical organization generally known as the "Paulist Fathers" or just "The Paulists".
As a Paulist, Hewit preferred teaching to giving parish missions, and taught for thirty years in the Paulist scholasticate. [3] He was a frequent contributor to Hecker's Catholic World magazine. [1] On the death of Hecker (1888), Hewit was almost unanimously chosen superior general of the institute and held this office until his death.