Persecuted by many Catholic dissidents on account of his Catholic orthodoxy, but loved by millions the world over, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) was one of the American Church’s greatest intellects, spiritual masters and evangelists. In his lifetime he wrote some 66 books on everything from the philosophy of science and epistemology to works of the most sublime spiritual depths.

Historian Thomas C. Reeves is a biographer of Archbishop Sheen, and in the following 2002 C-Span talk tells how the late archbishop sought all of his life for fidelity to Truth, spiritual growth in holiness and purity, and, like his Lord, was acquainted with both deepest joy and terrible sufferings.

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