●
Paulist Father
Isaac Hecker
founded The
Catholic World,
one of the
oldest journals
of Catholic
public opinion
in the United
States.
● Paulist
Father Isaac
Hecker founded
the Catholic
Publication
Society: It
would become the
Paulist Press,
which today is
the largest
Catholic
publishing house
in the United
States.
● The Paulist
Fathers helped
intitiate the
Newman movement
at secular
universities
throughout the
United States by
opening a chapel
in Berkeley --
one of the first
in North
America.
● The Paulist
Fathers founded
the Apostolic
Mission House on
the campus of
Catholic
University of
America to train
diocesan priests
in the art of
preaching and to
serve as
missionaries in
their own
dioceses.
 ●
Paulist Father
William Finn
established the
Paulist
Choristers, a
world-renowned
boys' choir
which was a
favorite of Pope
Pius X.
● Paulist Father
Alexander P.
Doyle helped
institute the
Army-Navy
Chaplain's
Bureau. It would
eventually
become today's
Archdiocese for
the Military
Services, USA.
● Paulist Father
John J. Burke
became the first
General
Secretary of the
National
Catholic Welfare
Conference.
Today that
conference is
the United
States
Conference of
Catholic
Bishops.
● The Paulist
Fathers
established WLWL,
a 50,000-watt
clear channel
radio station in
New York.
 ●
Paulist Fathers
James Finley and
John Reynolds
were the hosts
of the first
pulpit dialogues
ever produced
for network
television,
presented on NBC
for two seasons.
● Paulist Father
Ellwood Kieser,
known as the
"Hollywood
Priest," was
responsible for
Insight, one of
the best known
public service
television
programs in the
United States.
● Paulist Father
Jack Mulhall
created the only
Catholic
syndication
company that
distributed
Paulist radio
programs on
commercial
stations
throughout rural
America.
● Paulist Father
Jim Young
started the
first American
ministry group
for separated,
divorced and
remarried
Catholics.
● Paulist Father
Alvin A. Illig
founded the
first national
office for
evangelization
in the United
States.
● Paulist Father
John Geaney
produced the
first
satellite-mediated,
nationally
broadcast
program on
evangelization
for the Catholic
Church.
● The Paulist
National
Catholic
Evangelization
Association
began hosting
internet
meetings for
diocesan and
parish
evangelization
leaders across
the United
States.
● Paulists were
on television
with CNN, CBS
and CBC and many
local
stationsthroughout
the United
States and
Canada in
helping narrate
the poignant
story of the
death of Pope
John Paul II and
explaining the
election and
installation of
Pope Benedict
XVI.
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