Posted on 12/10/2009 10:37:37 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
To a Catholic boy like Tim Dolan, growing up in the heartland when Protestant neighbors still made casual jokes about the “papists” next door, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen rode into town in the 1950s on the new main street of the United States, the television set, like a true-blue American hero.
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My Gramma’s favorite human who ever lived.
Sweet.
Fulton Sheen’s “Life of Christ” is a MUST read. One of the best religious books, ever.
He did more for Christianity than any other modern human.
His old tv show still shows up on cable. He’s every bit as good now. Listen to him, then listen to the Kenyan Klod. It’s like comparing a faceted diamond to a mud rock.
“He did more for Christianity than any other modern human.”
I would hesitate to pick the greatest modern Christian but ther are many who did much including the ex-Jesuit but still very Catholic Fracisco Peccorini who resisted communism in El Salvador and paid with his life.
Another great one was Dietrich Bonhoeffer who was a Biblical strict constructionist, resisted the Nazi dictatorship, and paid with his life.
Another great one was Alexander Solzhenitsyn who resisted Atheism and Communism in the Soviet Union, suffered labor camps, internal exile, external exile, and left us a wealth of literature.
I was raised by my grandparents. My grandfather was a Basque Catholic and my grandmother was the daughter of a Mississippi Methodist circuit preacher. So as you might imagine there was a bit of a schism. The one thing they did agree upon was witching the beloved Bishop without fail.
A good man, but that does not make him a saint.
Bishop Sheen bump!
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