Archbishop Fulton Sheen Becomes “Venerable” Those who grew up at the day of TV well remember his pioneering role in communicating God’s message during the 1950’s.
Servant of God Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen is now “Venerable” after the Vatican announced today that Benedict XVI had signed a decree recognising that the archbishop heroically lived Christian virtues.
The announcement of the decree marks a significant step in the canonization cause of Peoria, Ill.-born Archbishop Sheen (1895-1979), the Emmy award-winning televangelist whose program, “Life is Worth Living,” was broadcast from 1951 to 1957.
The Vatican now has to recognise a miracle has occurred through his intercession for him to be beatified, the penultimate step to canonization. Alleged miracles have been reported, which are now being assessed by experts in Rome.
For little over a year, the Congregation for the Causes of Saints has been examining his cause based on volumes of Archbishop Sheen’s life gathered in his home diocese of Peoria. The Congregation will have first examined if the archbishop had shown evidence of the three theological virtues of faith, hope and charity, and then the four cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance.
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In the 1950’s I listened to a radio broadcast from the Mayfield Monastery in Newcastle, Australia. It included an address from Bishop Fulton Sheen… ‘More Things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of’.
A powerful message still remembered to this day.