The following comes from a June 28 posting on the Whispers in the Loggia website.
In an audience this morning with his chief Saintmaker, Cardinal Angelo Amato SDB, the Pope assented to several decrees of canonization, beatification and the heroic virtue of souls on the path to sainthood.
Of them all, however, none are as likely to resonate among this crowd more than the declaration as “Venerable” of the figure who’s arguably the most celebrated and effective evangelist in the history of the faith on these shores, once the nation’s most-watched TV personality — the epic, great and beloved “Bishop Sheen”….
The declaration of Fulton Sheen’s heroic virtue marks the Vatican’s affirmation of a process concluded by his native diocese of Peoria in early 2008. A miraculous healing attributed to his intercession has already been presented to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
For original posting, Click here.
To see video of Fulton Sheen preaching,Click here.
Bishop Fulton Sheen was an excellent role model for us all. He left us with only good comments to remember him by, I hope that what he has taught will continue to be played and be known.
If God wants him to be a saint for the church to acknowledge, I pray that it be done, if God will it, that many more miracles will come from his intercession. I don’t understand this process, I really don’t but how does one record or proof that a miracle came from his intercession? Is is a sin to pray about this? I don’t know how that process works…
I haven’t seen the film, so can’t comment on it, rllaey, but the bit about its conception as a thematic dialogue with Decalogue 1 rllaey intrigues me.Kieslowski, of course, is deeply ambivalent about the “theme” himself. But, I don’t think it’s right to interpret Kieslowski’s take as even slightly didactic.That is to say, Decalogue 1 is a “thematic dialogue” on its own, like the rest of Decalogue and the Trois Couleurs trilogy.