
Eyewitness to History: Bishop Fulton J. Sheen’s Assistant Remembers Vatican II ‘Revolution’
Msgr. Franco, at Bishop Sheen’s request, asked permission to have a chapel set up in one of the hotel’s spare rooms for the bishops to pray in.
Msgr. Franco, at Bishop Sheen’s request, asked permission to have a chapel set up in one of the hotel’s spare rooms for the bishops to pray in.
We would do well to allow Archbishop Sheen’s rich teaching on the Holy Eucharist to penetrate our minds and hearts.
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“You have written and spoken well of the Lord Jesus Christ, Pope St. John Paul II told him in 1979. “You are a loyal son of the Church.”
Venerable Sheen, an American evangelist and television personality who died in 1979, was set to be beatified in Peoria, where he had served as a priest, in December 2019.
Born in El Paso, Illinois on May 8, 1895, Peter John Sheen was ordained a priest of the Peoria diocese on Sept. 20, 1919. He was called “Fulton” in honor of his mother’s maiden name.
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The prophetic Sheen again sounds as he were looking at today’s society, finding hope in an unusual example amid violence and runaway science
Joan Sheen Cunningham’s book puts Archbishop Sheen's life in a new perspective with accounts of his childhood, his talent for public speaking, and the family's devotion to Catholicism.
COMMENTARY: Fond memories of the holy archbishop, who loved Mary, the Eucharist and the priesthood.
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