Pope praises US radio and TV preacher Fulton Sheen as an inspiration ahead of his beatification
Pope Leo XIV honored American Archbishop Fulton Sheen as an inspiration during a general audience at St. Peter’s Square, ahead of the preacher's beatification.
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, who grew up listening to popular American television preacher Archbishop Fulton Sheen, praised his fellow Illinois clergyman as an inspiration on Wednesday on the eve of Sheen’s beatification. The American pope urged English-speaking pilgrims attending his general audience St. Peter’s Square to use Sheen’s example and find new ways […]
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