Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Centennial moment: Archbishop Sheen

Catholics throughout the country have been thrilled to learn that Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen has been declared venerable. 

Our Sunday Visitor joins in rejoicing. It was during the 1930s that then-Father Sheen began writing for Our Sunday Visitor newsweekly. Already famous for his "Catholic Hour" radio program, Sheen discussed the problem of living the faith in an increasingly secularized world. 

A line from his 1938 article was all too prophetic: "The vision of the cross is fading; the borderland between light and darkness is growing dimmer and the world is about to pass over into the hinterland of darkness and ruin."

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