During his address to representatives of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Pope Leo XIV invites the entire Church to participate in World Mission Sunday and recalls longtime PMS director in the United States, Venerable Fulton Sheen, who will be beatified in September, as a "light of faith and hope in the Gospel," noting: "I myself am a witness of his evangelization when I was growing up."
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As the Pontifical Mission Societies gathered in Rome, Pope Leo XIV reflected on Fulton Sheen's legacy, the centenary of World Mission Sunday, and the call to missionary renewal.
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Pope Leo XIV praised Venerable Fulton J. Sheen on June 1 as “a light of faith, hope, and love” whose radio and television broadcasts brought the Gospel to millions of Americans — including the pope himself as a child.
Speaking at a Vatican audience with members of the Pontifical Mission Societies, the pope called it providential that the beloved archbishop will be beatified during the centennial year of the Pontifical Mission Societies he once led as the national director of the U.S. Society for the Propagation of the Faith, @TPMS_USA.
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Pope Leo XIV on Monday praised the missionary legacy of Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, the famed American evangelist who will be beatified Sept. 24 in St. Louis, calling him “a light of faith, hope, and love.”
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It's FULTON SHEEN FRIDAY!
QUO VADIS?
"Can you build anything DOWN? You cannot!
Certainly time in our nation to change our words. And let's begin now to use the word UP."
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Today is the feast day of Saint Pope Paul VI
"In that world where love and life are made discontinuous, Paul VI affirms the deep relatedness of one to the other." Archbishop Fulton Sheen