24 Hours of MP3 Audio by Archbishop Fulton Sheen Life is Worth Living - Teachings of Catholicism

24 Hours of MP3 Audio by Archbishop Fulton Sheen Life is Worth Living - Teachings of Catholicism

Archbishop Fulton Sheen
Life is Worth Living - Teachings of Catholicism
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Archbishop Fulton Sheen Please visit the Official Website Bishop Sheen's Cause for Canonization 1895–Born on May 8th in El Paso, Illinois, the oldest of four sons of Newton and Delia Fulton Sheen though he was baptized Peter John, throughout his life he was known by his mother’s maiden name, Fulton. After his baptism, his mother dedicated him to the Blessed Virgin Mary, a dedication he himself renewed at his First Holy Communion. He lived with his family for a time on a farm outside Peoria, Illinois.

Personal Data (May 8, 1895 – December 9, 1979) Was television's first preacher of note, hosting Life Is Worth Living in the early 1950s on the DuMont Television Network. Sheen was born in El Paso, Illinois, the oldest of four sons of a farmer. Though he was known as Fulton, his mother's maiden name, he was baptized Peter John Sheen. As an infant, Sheen contracted tuberculosis. After the family moved to nearby Peoria, Illinois, Sheen's first role in the Catholic church was as an altar boy at St. Mary's Cathedral. Academic After earning high school valedictorian honors at Spalding Insititute in Peoria in 1913, Sheen was educated at St. Viator College, Bourbonnais, Illinois. Making the debating team in his freshman year, his coach called him aside the night before a major debate with the University of Notre Dame, and told him bluntly: "Sheen, you're absolutely the worst speaker I ever heard." Sheen attended St. Paul's Seminary in Minnesota before his ordination on September 20, 1919, then followed that with further studies at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.. Sheen earned a doctorate in philosophy at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium in 1923. While there, he became the first American ever to win the Cardinal Mercier award for the best philosophical treatise. Sheen then taught theology at St. Edmund's College, Ware in England, In 1926, the Bishop of his hometown in Peoria asked him to take over St. Patrick's Parish. After eight months, Sheen returned to Catholic University to teach philosophy. History Sheen wrote the first of some 90 books in 1925, and in 1930 began a weekly Sunday night radio broadcast, The Catholic Hour Sheen served as Auxiliary Bishop of New York from 1951 to 1965. In 1951 he also began a weekly television program on the DuMont network, Life is Worth Living. The show, scheduled for Tuesday nights at 8:00 p.m., was not expected to offer much of a challenge against ratings giants Milton Berle and Frank Sinatra, but surprisingly held its own, causing Berle to joke, "He uses old material, too". In 1952, Bishop Sheen won an Emmy Award for his efforts, accepting the acknowledgement by saying, "I feel it is time I pay tribute to my four writers. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John." On October 2, 1979, two months before Sheen's death, Pope John Paul II visited St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City and embraced Sheen, saying, "You have written and spoken well of the Lord Jesus Christ. You are a loyal son of the Church." In 2002 Sheen's Cause for Canonization was officially opened, and so he is now referred to as a Servant of God. Reruns of Sheen's various programs continue to air on the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) and the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN).

 

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1. Ascension 2. Authority and Infallibility 3. Baptism 4. Birth Control 5. Body of Christ 6. Christ in the Creed 7. Communism and the Church 8. Confirmation 9. Conscience 10. Death and judgment 11. Divinity of Christ 12. Good& Evil #1

13. Good & Evil #2 14. Heaven Is Not So Far Away 15. Holy Orders 16. Holy Sacrament 17. Humanity of Christ 18. Law of Love - Total Commitment 19. Marriage Problems 20. Marriage Sacrament 21. Marriage 22. New Testament Revelation 23. Old Testament Revelation 24. Original Sin and the Angels

25. Original Sin 26. Penance 27. Peter - Vicar of Christ 28. Philosophy of Life 29. Prayer is a Dialogue 30. Purgatory 31. Revealed Truth 32. Sacrament of the Sick 33. Sanctifying Grace 34. Sex is a Mystery 35. Sin and Penance 36. Sin

37. Suffering, Death, Ressurrection 38. The Blessed Trinity 39. The Commandments - part 1 40. The Commandments - part 2 41. The Effects of Original Sin 42. The Eucharist Sacrifice 43. The Hell there is 44. The Holy Spirit 45. The Mass 46. The Mother of Jesus 47. The Sacraments 48. The World the Soul and Things

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Archbishop Fulton Sheen

Cause for Archbishop Fulton Sheen advances Peoria, Jul. 25, 2006 (CNA) - The process of canonization for Archbishop Fulton Sheen is advancing steadily. Copies of a report on an alleged miracle that took place in 1999 through the intercession of the Archbishop were signed Sunday by Roman Catholic Church officials and will be sent to the Vatican for review, reported The Journal Star. The 500-page report and supporting documents will be delivered to Rome by canon lawyer Dr. Andrea Ambrosi, postulator of the cause. The cause was officially begun in 2003. Archbishop Sheen was born in the Woodford County town of El Paso in 1895 and ordained in the Diocese of Peoria in 1919. He became widely known and respected as a teacher of the faith through his television programs in the 1950s and 1960s. He died in 1979. The alleged miracle involves a Champaign woman, then 72 years old, who was undergoing lung surgery when a tear was discovered in her main pulmonary artery. The woman's husband told investigators he prayed for his wife's recovery invoking the archbishop. The woman is still alive and in good health.

Traditional Latin Catholic Mass On Easter Sunday in 1941 at Our Lady of Sorrows church in Chicago. The film presents the ceremonies of the Missa Solemnis or Solemn High Mass in full detail with narration by then-Mgr. Fulton J. Sheen. Celebrated by Rev. J. R. Keane of the Order of Servites (hence the white habits and cowls), the ceremonies are accompanied by a full polyphonic choir, orchestra, and fifty Gregorian Chanters .

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