Posted on 08/01/2020 11:35:33 AM PDT by Shark24
Pretty amazing discussion from the early 60s. He nails the issues we are dealing with today. Cheers!
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I have it set to where he talks about elitism but I suggest you watch the whole thing. God bless.
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I have always considered venerable Fulton J. Sheen to be a prophet. I have just started a digital library and have been re-reading books authored by him. I strongly suggest reading him or viewing his videos online. Everybody, not only Christians and Americans could learn from him, thanks for posting - I thoroughly enjoyed watching!
Up. Those who wish to carry us downward tell us that we can’t turn around and head up again. Bet we can.
He brought up elitism and also “watch the guy with the bull horn”. Perfect!
Jefferson (see tagline) and Sheen are two of my heroes for the same reason. They both showed the courage of their convictions, and both showed heroic virtue.
WIKI-——The first Sheen show, scheduled in a prime time slot on Tuesday nights at 8:00 p.m., was not expected to challenge the ratings giants Milton Berle and Frank Sinatra, but did surprisingly well. Berle, known to many early television viewers as “Uncle Miltie” and for using ancient vaudeville material, joked about Sheen, “He uses old material, too”, and observed that “[i]f I’m going to be eased off the top by anyone, it’s better that I lose to the One for whom Bishop Sheen is speaking.”[9] Sheen responded in jest that maybe people should start calling him “Uncle Fultie”.[24] Life and Time magazine ran feature stories on Bishop Sheen.
The number of stations carrying Life Is Worth Living jumped from three to fifteen in less than two months. There was fan mail that flowed in at a rate of 8,500 letters per week. There were four times as many requests for tickets as could be fulfilled.
Admiral, the sponsor, paid the production costs in return for a one-minute commercial at the opening of the show and another minute at the close.[25] In 1952 Sheen won an Emmy Award for his efforts,[26] accepting the acknowledgment by saying, “I feel it is time I pay tribute to my four writers – Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.” When Sheen won the Emmy, Berle quipped, “We both work for ‘Sky Chief’”, a reference to Berle’s sponsor Texaco. Time called him “the first ‘televangelist’”, and the Archdiocese of New York could not meet the demand for tickets.[9]
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.[27]
The show ran until 1957, drawing as many as 30 million people on a weekly basis. In 1958, Sheen became national director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, serving for eight years before being appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Rochester, New York, on October 26, 1966. He also hosted a nationally syndicated series, The Fulton Sheen Program, from 1961 to 1968 (first in black and white and then in color). The format of this series was essentially the same as Life Is Worth Living.
International cassette tape ministry
In September 1974, the Archbishop of Washington asked Sheen to be the speaker for a retreat for diocesan priests at the Loyola Retreat House in Faulkner, Maryland. This was recorded on reel-to-reel tape, state of the art at the time.[28]
Sheen requested that the recorded talks be produced for distribution. This was the first production of what would become a worldwide cassette tape ministry called Ministr-O-Media, a nonprofit company that operated on the grounds of St. Joseph’s Parish, Pomfret, Maryland. The retreat album was titled, Renewal and Reconciliation, and included nine 60-minute audio tapes.[28]
Evangelization
Sheen was credited with helping convert a number of notable figures to the Catholic faith, including agnostic writer Heywood Broun, politician Clare Boothe Luce, automaker Henry Ford II, Communist writer Louis F. Budenz, Communist organizer Bella Dodd,[29] theatrical designer Jo Mielziner, violinist and composer Fritz Kreisler, and actress Virginia Mayo. Each conversion process took an average of 25 hours of lessons, and reportedly more than 95% of his students in private instruction were baptized.[9]
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“What is the essence of satanism? It is the destruction of order, the order of law, the order of morality, the order of religion, the order of ethics.”
This is the order of the democrat party.
Several times in the video, Sheen references a particularly relevant writer. I believe he is saying “Quimby”.
Can anyone confirm the author to whom he references as reading his “complete works” ?
Thanks,
Toynbee does seem to be a better choice for whom he was referencing.
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