A prophetic statement, for sure.
I think the last Bishop Sheen thread on here had the “What’s My Line?” episode he was on... and there was a Freeper that stated he was confirmed by him...
I was raised Protestant, but have always enjoyed watching reruns of his “Life is Worth Living” series.
What an awesome quotation!
Here’s another good quotation by Bishop Sheen:
“Why can’t the modern mind see there is nothing new in Communism/Socialism? It is a groan of despair, not the revolution that starts a new age. It is the logical development of a civilization which for the last 400 years has been forgetting God. I’m beginning to believe there are only two classes of people: those who believe and those who want to believe. The new era into which we are entering is what might be called the religious phase of human history. But do not misunderstand: by religious we do not mean that men will turn to God, but rather that the indifference to the absolute which characterized the liberal phase of civilization will be succeeded by a passion for an absolute. From now on the struggle will be not for colonies and national rights, but for the souls of men . . . The conflict of the future is between the absolute who is the God-man and the absolute which is the man-God “ - Fulton J. Sheen, Apr. 14, 1952.