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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, ...
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 ...
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 a saintly long-ranging spiritual vision, Ven. Fulton J. Sheen saw the roots of today’s crisis firmly planted and growing in 1974, but he gave us an antidote.
Then Bishop Fulton J. Sheen offers a word of encouragement to a resident at the Lakeshore Nursing home in Rochester, N.Y., in 1968. Religion News Service file photo.
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 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, born and raised in central Illinois, is being considered for sainthood, and the Diocese of Peoria is hoping to resume the process soon. advertisement.
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen will be beatified Dec. 21, Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria announced late Nov. 18.
Coadjutor Bishop Louis Tylka of Peoria, Ill., applauds as a city traffic operations worker unveils a newly erected sign designating Madison Avenue outside of St. Mary’s Cathedral as “Honorary ...
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 ...