For one newly married Catholic couple, a recent meeting with the first Illinois-born pope presented a spontaneous opportunity ...

Archbishop Sheen died in Manhattan at age 84 in 1979, and shortly after his body was entombed at St. Patrick’s. It remained there peacefully until Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, ...

In life, Archbishop Fulton Sheen was exceptional, a riveting Catholic preacher on radio who became more popular than star comedian Milton Berle in the early days of television and who had a ...

Distinctly Catholic: The postponement of Archbishop Fulton Sheen's beatification raises deeper issues about whom and how we as a church canonize. It's time to look at the criteria for sainthood.

With yet another Dec. 9 death anniversary of Archbishop Fulton Sheen passing last month, one can’t help but both wonder if that date will someday officially be established as his feast day ...

The Manhattan appeals court sided with the 91-year-old niece of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, a revered Catholic figure, based largely on her and a monsignor's testimony about Sheen's reverence for ...

Archbishop Fulton Sheen, the famed media evangelist, is pictured in an undated photo. The Diocese of Peoria, Ill., announced Dec. 3, 2019, it was informed Dec. 2 the Vatican has decided to ...

The late American Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, a pioneer of televangelism in the mid-20th century, moved a step closer to sainthood after Pope Francis officially recognized a miracle associated ...

In a celebration blending religious and civic pride in one of Peoria’s most famous and influential historic residents, the street outside St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria was given the honorary ...

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen will be beatified Dec. 21, Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria announced late Nov. 18.

A long battle over where the body of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen should be permanently laid to rest took another turn on Tuesday, when a New York appeals court ruled that his remains should stay in ...