November 11, 2025 By: Robert Morrison | RemnantNewspaper.com Columnist [Note: The term “ape church” refers to a concept introduced by Bishop Fulton Sheen, describing a potentially counterfeit church that mimics the true Church and is in danger of being devoid of its divine essence. This “ape church” is seen as a deceptive force that leads people… Read More Comparing the Marks of the Catholic Church and the Synodal Church
As charming, posh, so-called intellectuals (or, if you prefer, contemporary human monsters) in Britain and Europe+ speak of the urgent need to find ever more huge sums of monies (“you need to excite people”) for another “interesting” European war (this time against Putin), and as we approach the 80th anniversary the atomic bombings of Hiroshima… Read More Intrinsic Evil
4 hrs 34 mins. Unlike so many today, Archbishop Fulton Sheen was biblically-centered. He explicitly rejected Modernistic reinterpretations of Sacred Scripture(1). Here for 4 1/2 continuous hours Bishop Sheen expounds with great erudition on Christ’s Passion and death and beyond, What God has done for us…This is an incomparable Sheen gift for Holy Week —and… Read More Fulton J Sheen. Holy Week. Sign of Contradiction: Good Friday and Beyond
Must listen talks given by the Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen during the season of Lent in 1944. These recordings come from the radio addresses he gave on the Catholic Hour program. Talk 1 – A Word to HumanistsTalk 2 – A Word to SinnersTalk 3 – A Word to the SelfishTalk 4 – A… Read More Archbishop Sheen. A Word to Humanists.
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… Read More Thomas C. Reeves on Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. C-Span.
What Fulton J. Sheen saw so clearly that others seek to forget: We are only sojourners here in a strange and foreign land. “Our whole life ought to be one continued penance“. — Frs. Francis Spirago, Richard F. Clarke on Penance. Joel 2:12-13 “Yet even now,” says the Lord, “return to me with all of your heart,with… Read More Repentance and / or the American Dialectic
From the December 2024 New Oxford Review symposium Catholics and Political Life. 1. It is hard for me to understand how a nation can be an experiment. Such a notion presupposes that the United States is not actually a nation but an idea, something that underlies our many attempts, from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush,… Read More Thomas Storck on the American Experiment
Roberto de Mattei. “In the Gospels, Jesus makes use of many metaphors to describe the Church He founded. One of the most fitting is the image of the boat threatened by the tempest (Matt. 8:23–27; Mark 4:35–41; Luke 8:22–25). This image was often used by the Church Fathers and saints, who spoke of the Church… Read More The “true reform” that the Church needed in the 20th century
National Catholic Register. With a saintly long-ranging spiritual vision, Ven. Fulton J. Sheen saw the roots of today’s crisis firmly planted and growing in 1974, but he gave us an antidote. Joseph Pronechen July 29, 2018 “First of all, we are at the end of Christendom,” Archbishop Fulton Sheen solemnly said during a television show in… Read More Archbishop Sheen’s Warning of a Crisis in Christendom. 1974.
And the philosophy of science. The Philosophy of Science challenges a fundamental facet of the modern outlook: that science as such can answer ultimate questions about ourselves, the universe, and God. Disdaining mere discussion or mordant criticism of purely scientific conclusions, Sheen opens science to a realm of thought commonly diminished at best and denigrated… Read More Marx and Hegel: The Philosophy of Communism
On overcoming. St. Augustine teaches, “When the unlawful pleasure of concupiscence tempts you, fight, resist, do not consent; and the saying is fulfilled, Go not after thy desires.” Still further, he says elsewhere that of two persons who have the same temptation to impurity, it sometimes happens that one consents to it and the other… Read More Predominant Sin of Our Times
Home diocese of the Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. (CNA) “… The decision to drastically downsize the diocese comes amid declining Mass attendance there as well as a prediction of a shrinking number of priests. Seventy percent of the 145 total priests ministering in the diocese are over the age of 50. According to the diocese’s projections, in… Read More Peoria Diocese to reduce the number of parishes in the diocese by half
Solange Strong Hertz. Quis ut Deus? Who is like God? The very name of St. Michael, Commander-in-Chief of the Church Militant, is a question. So capital a query immediately suggests another which must have preceded it: Who thinks he can be like God? Answers to both are given in Scripture, for God would not have… Read More The Primacy of Lucifer
This is no ordinary talk / book (perfectly narrated here). It is extraordinary even by Fulton J. Sheen’s standard. Lay persons and clergy both need to hear its message in our troublesome time. A time which assaults our very souls: “Day after day, Christians struggle to do good, to avoid evil, and to take up… Read More Spiritual Warfare: Victory Over Vice by Archbishop Fulton J Sheen
“…she tells us that “of course” she could “provide good arguments as to why looking at gender this way is wrong. Tempted as she might be … it turns out that she’s not going to bother with that stuff much. Instead, she wants to give the people what nobody was really asking for: a deconstruction of the… Read More What is Judith Butler afraid of?
“The order marked for destruction can be summed up in one word: Europe—the intellectual and spiritual synthesis of Rome, Athens, and Jerusalem. The new totalitarianism proceeds by negating every form of transcendence, especially the religious truth and universal reason which Del Noce calls “Platonism.” It reconceives reality as “a system of forces, not of values.” Being… Read More Del Noce on Liberalism & the Scientism of Marx
This war is not like any other war. A revolution … involve[s] ideologies, dogmas and creeds. 1914 The so-called “Age of Reason” was really an Age of Unbelief for its strongest protagonists were corrosive men like Hume, Kant, Voltaire, who measured the growth of reason by its alienation from God Who Alone could guarantee its… Read More Fulton J. Sheen, 1943. War Against Christians and Jews.
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen writes, “If we save our life in this world, we lose it in the next; if we lose our life in this world, we save it in the next. If we sow in sin, we reap corruption; if we sow in truth, we reap life everlasting. But we cannot do both.… Read More The fast or the feast?
James M. Patterson, April 2020First Things Magazine C-Span: The important lecture of Thomas Reeves on America’s Bishop (including an the account of his many sufferings and persecutions). Watch it here. Fulton J. Sheen is defined in popular imagination by the persona he adopted on Life Is Worth Living, his Emmy-winning television program. During each episode, the… Read More Taking Sheen Seriously
From ProdigalCatholic.Com: “In this talk (below), Fulton Sheen explains the meaning of the Mass. This is a fantastic talk that deserves to be listened to many times. Below are some notes I’ve taken while listening to the talk. First, Sheen answers a common complaint. “Do you know the reason why you don’t get anything out… Read More The Meaning of the Mass
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