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5 things to know about Archbishop Fulton Sheen as his beatification approaches


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Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News

Archbishop Sheen was born on May 8, 1895 in El Paso, Ill. He grew up in Peoria, Ill., where he attended Spalding Institute high school and later attended St. Viator College in Bourbonnais, Ill. He was ordained as a priest in 1919 for the Diocese of Peoria, and eventually served as auxiliary bishop of New York 1951-66 and as bishop of Rochester 1966-69. Upon his retirement in 1969, he was given the honorary title of archbishop.

Radio Interview: Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s enduring legacy


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Catholic Review Filed Under: CR Radio, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Saints

Christopher Gunty speaks with Monsignor Jason Gray, executive director of the Archbishop Fulton Sheen Foundation, about the remarkable life and legacy of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. Their conversation traces Archbishop Sheen’s journey from his humble beginnings in Peoria, Il., to becoming one of the most influential Catholic communicators of the 20th century.

Archbishop Lori urges women religious to model renewal of American political culture 


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Filed Under: America's 250th anniversary, Archbishop's Ministry, Consecrated Life, Feature, Local News, News, Saints

At a time of deep political division and declining trust, Archbishop William E. Lori told a national gathering of women religious leaders that renewing American political culture requires more than better politics. It requires a renewal of human character, relationships and spiritual life, a task to which he said women religious make a unique contribution.

Fulton Sheen: A teacher of virtue


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OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Saints

“What virtues do you think Sheen is an example of?” That question was put to me by a fellow sister who was preparing her classroom for the beginning of the school year. Here in Peoria, Illinois, we are already several weeks into the school year. But in other parts of the country, students and teachers just had their first days of class this week. This sister was preparing a bulletin board about saints and virtues.

Relics of St. Bernadette will come to Archdiocese of Baltimore in late September


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Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Saints

Catholics throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore will receive their second opportunity in less than five years to encounter, venerate and pray with the relics of a saint who has led countless Catholics to Christ through the Blessed Mother. A reliquary of St. Bernadette will make visits to three sites within the archdiocese in September, some of the earliest parts of a national journey the relics will take in the next 12 months.