Life is Worth Living | Episode 100 | Nice People | Fulton Sheen

Fulton John Sheen, was born May 8, 1895 in Illinois and was ordained a priest of the diocese of Peoria in Peoria, IL on September 20, 1919. In 1930, after just eleven years of priesthood, Sheen began hosting a weekly Sunday night radio broadcast called The Catholic Hour. This broadcast captured many devoted listeners, reportedly drawing an audience of four million people every week for two decades. In 1951, Sheen was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdioceses of New York, the same year he started Life is Worth Living. Life is Worth Living ran until 1957. Bishop Sheen hosted another television series, The Fulton Sheen Program, running from 1961 to 1968 that closely modeled the Life is Worth Living series.
In 1979 Fulton J. Sheen received his greatest accolade when Pope John Paul II embraced him and said, "You have written and spoken well of the Lord Jesus. You are a loyal son of the Church." With that last acknowledgement, Fulton Sheen passed into eternal life just two months later on December 9, 1979.
Bishop Fulton Sheen was scheduled for beatification (the process of becoming a saint in the Catholic Church) on December 21, 2019, at the Cathedral of St. Mary in Peoria. On December 3, 2019, the Diocese of Peoria announced that the beatification of Sheen would be delayed.

[@thiagojaschek5280]

"The greatest surprise: that we are there". Bishop Sheen is awesome.

[@BedungRotkangmwaPaula]

We continue to pray for Bishop Sheen

[@sebastianmoran.]

Great Man Bishop Fulton Sheen.

[@janeogrady1741]

Bishop Fulton Sheen was a brilliant writer, speaker, evangelizer from when he became a priest until his death in 1979. He wrote 66 books! Sheen had appeared on the radio program The Catholic Hour from 1928 to 1952. With his hypnotic gaze, disarming smile, and dramatic delivery, Sheen was deemed a natural for television.
Life Is Worth Living is an inspirational American television series which ran on the DuMont Television Network from February 12, 1952, to April 26, 1955, then on ABC until April 8, 1957, featuring the Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. Similar series, also featuring Sheen, followed in 1958-1961 and 1961-1968.
Then from 1951 to 1957, his groundbreaking television program, "Life is Worth Living," reached an estimated 30 million viewers each week. Archbishop Sheen touched so many lives that he would receive as many as 25,000 letters a day.

[@ashleygrant3131]

I CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH for this comment and all this info?! :)
Any idea where I could get a copy of all of his episodes? I’d enjoy watching them in their entirety :)

[@my4angelsSweden]

🙏❤️

[@General_Alek]

does anyone know if he died a virgin?

[@minui8758]

What an uncouth question. Almost certainly yes and if not he’d have been very ashamed. It’s an extraordinary crown of virtue to loose

[@General_Alek]

@@minui8758 you are right