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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper; Rodamala
Looks like Cardinal Sheehan, a great anti-communist Christian leader in the 1950’s/60’s. They don’t make them like that any more. You’ve got to be old like us to remember him and his tv appearances.

That you do. I remember this Bishop Sheen show: "One of his best-remembered presentations came in February 1953, when he forcefully denounced the Soviet regime of Joseph Stalin. Sheen gave a dramatic reading of the burial scene from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, substituting the names of prominent Soviet leaders Stalin, Lavrenty Beria, Georgy Malenkov, and Andrey Vyshinsky for the original Caesar, Cassius, Marc Antony, and Brutus. He concluded by saying, "Stalin must one day meet his judgment." The dictator suffered a stroke a few days later and died within a week."

I was 9 at the time, (we just got a B/W 17" TV) but it was an early engram on the evils of communism. He was an excellent teacher. Kids just don't see this kind of thing these days. .

More Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

114 posted on 03/18/2015 6:39:16 PM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: Art in Idaho; MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

I forget who it is without an exhaustive search, but there is a Freeper amongst us that claims to have been baptized by Bishop Sheen.


117 posted on 03/18/2015 6:46:05 PM PDT by Rodamala
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