A week with this generation's Fulton Sheen [John Allen]

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I once had a church history professor who loved counter-factual thought exercises. A hypothetical question he asked us to ponder was the following: What if Fulton Sheen had been named Archbishop of New York?

Sheen, of course, was the 1950s-era TV bishop who, at the height of his fame, commanded an audience estimated at 30 million. In 1952, his show “Life is Worth Living” beat Lucille Ball and Edward R. Murrow for an Emmy award. The point of the question was to consider what the results might have been if the American church’s most gifted natural communicator – in effect, the Catholic Billy Graham – had also been given the country’s most important ecclesiastical post.

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I was happy to see that Zenit.org featured an article about Bishop Sheen this week, even though this link refers to the current Bishop of NY, Archbishop Dolan, another good man for these times. Read this article about Bishop Sheen, zenit.org/article-27810?l=english Masses in 50 states and in 35 countries were said Wednesday in honor of the archbishop, who died Dec. 9, 1979. The prelate is buried in the crypt of St. Patrick’s, which was opened to the public before and after Mass:thumbsup: God bless this holy man.
 
I love them both…they both are such a tonic for us in these dark days
 
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