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Bishop Fulton Sheen — Part 2

40 pages · May 08, 2026 · Document date: Apr 26, 1953 · Broad topic: Cold War & Communism · Topic: Bishop Fulton Sheen · 40 pages OCR'd
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. 3 — ae ee —_P (= - - * aan a be ~ . t 4 fe . . Ce eth 5 : - — ; t- cm ee et ee es ne eee nt ana a es -. ee ee eee ee ee re ee ' z £ Pes Pros ; + * ac L'Universite de Louvain 4 St - we Fores: Professor ‘of Philosophy, Catholic Universityof America “5. + ~ Sow National Director of the Society For the Propagation of the Faith Author of over 36 books on religion, including "Peace of Soul" One of world's outstanding radio epeskers - for « over: twenty years; oe now outstanding in Television — > . Has given hundreds of lectures each year, sonetines @s many 46 BREE? Ragen) [bee six or seven in one day. =) wilde Tr oy a . Bishop Sheen's charities 5 will 1 never be known and. ‘his te ee Re “5 : lecturing and writing have usually been sent to particular Catholic Chari-~ ties. He keeps nothing for himself. . ae 4 ves NY ~The Bishop has little or no social ‘life. He eats usually in ‘ twenty to twenty-five minutes. He tries to save morning hours for creative work, sees callers in the afternoon, and in the | evenings does reacing and research. oo Bishop Sheen never prepares ‘a talk. He ‘hever uses notes and he y shifts the theme of his discussion by watching the people in the last row. . > When they evidence restlessness, he changes to an illustration or enecdote. C Literally millions of Americans have heard him recite the poen, “Lovely . < e i LASSIFIED taty Bressed. in Blue" ee. fo ne foe. ~~ : efi 2 BHR: Ya we Oo orn Bs, i ia Es. yt ad e_ = a) 3 His greatest devotion is to the Mother of @od. Bg! ab ~ poo. : : © = He became fauous for the conversion to Catholicien of fanous people, = Duy imeluding Claire Boothe Luce, Aubassador to Italy; and Henry Ford, 11; also 4 - oe rE converted LOUIS BUDENZ, former Editor-in-Chief of the Communist ua Worker" ; =x=xraA and ELIZABETH BENTLEY, former Coumunist and Goviet courier. | aa Ys: iy, se > " Bishop Sheen advises that he does not. make converts -- L merely +4116 the soil of the soul. He says that Grace makes converts. He has kept ‘g wee, no record of the people he has baptized Becauses, if he dia 1 803 he might lose i ae his 4nfluence over souls. , 7 58 JUL 9 9 Bae. ae 0 . G22 mme ~ tt eee - ~ a een oe. —_
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