PEORIA, ILL., June 29 (CNA/EWTN News) .- Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria says the declaration of Archbishop Fulton Sheen as “venerable” is wonderful news for both the diocese and the Catholic Church in America.
On June 28 the Pope Benedict XVI authorized the decree recognizing the heroic virtues of the much loved U.S. archbishop, author and television evangelist. The move brings Sheen closer to sainthood.
“Fulton Sheen’s zeal, wisdom, and holiness should help us build our faith,” Bishop Jenky said. He thanked God that the Catholic Church has recognized “a son from central Illinois.”
Archbishop Sheen was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Peoria and went on to become a prominent speaker and author. In addition to serving as an auxiliary bishop of New York and Bishop of Rochester, was best known for his weekly radio broadcast “The Catholic Hour” and his later weekly television program “Life is Worth Living.”
The archbishop died in 1979 at the age of 84. His cause for sainthood was opened in 2002.
Msgr. Stanley Deptula, executive director of the Archbishop Fulton John Sheen Foundation in Peoria, said the Catholic Church in America needs “heroes to inspire us to stand up and to fall to our knees.”
“I think in a special way, Venerable Fulton Sheen can be an inspiration and a consolation to our bishops and other Church leaders. He was a man of courage, and priest of prayer.”
In response to the decree, Bishop Jenky will celebrate a thanksgiving Mass on Sept. 9 at the Cathedral of St. Mary in Peoria.
Well yesterday was a slow news day, but I was very happy to see this story source
Though I was also happy to see a story on Bishop Clark having to send in his retirement letter to the Pope. Bishop Clark is of course the Bishop of Rochester who actually has been there so long that the previous bishop was Archbishop Sheen.
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Bishop Clark is of course the Bishop of Rochester who actually has been there so long that the previous bishop was Archbishop Sheen.
That might be a tongue in cheek statement, but actually there was another bishop – Bishop Hogan, who served from 1969-78 (and Bishop McCafferty, who was auxillary bishop until Clark took over in June 1979).
I remember Clark’s installation Mass.
>Well yesterday was a slow news day,
I would have thought the complete loss of your religious liberty would rate?
@Salvage: Yes, but we do get national health care in return, does that make a difference? You do love playing a harp with one string.
As for the rest: It’s about time Bishop Fulton Sheen was officially recognized for his inspiration. He’s been venerated by even the laity already. and still missed. Long time no Sheen, *sniff, sob*
harp with one string,
never heard that one before. I like it.
BTW, if congress can now pass any bloody penalty they want as a tax, we lost more than just religious freedom.
Really hope I’m reading that one wrong
Salvage,
But I still find your thought system fascinating.
Please teach me. Or by your silence do you tell me that you do not have a rational basis for your positions, which I’m sure cannot be the case for someone who values Reason.
What are the metrics of happiness?
What are “positive results?”
Wishing you happiness…
>, if congress can now pass any bloody penalty they want as a tax, we lost more than just religious freedom.
Ha! Ha! Yes! America is destroyed and Freedom dead!
You do know that the legislation was based on a Republican plan and that they only turned against it when Obama adopted it?
Going to be a fun election as Mitt has to say how Obamacare is bad but his version that he enacted as Governor wasn’t.
That is going to take one heck of an etch-a-sketch shake to clear!
Meh
Can’t say I care for either one personally
Yes I know its a rehash, at least on the basic idea level. I don’t know how the original Republican version would have been implemented, but I have a problem with “Buy this or else. Oh you can’t afford it? Looks like or else.”
Do you think I just auto-bob my head if something is stamped with an elephant logo?
My question is about the Court saying the penalty is a tax, what will this mean?
And so Fulton J Sheen is left out of any real honor; far better that he have been a golf pro. Well done, gentlemen, well done.
Salvage,
I’m sorry but I think something went wrong with my last post, because I cannot find it on any of these threads. So I apologize to have to repeat my last two questions:
What are the metrics of happiness?
What do you mean by “positive results?”
Wishing you happiness…
>Can’t say I care for either one personally
A single payer system works best, the doctors bill the government, the government gets the money from taxes, it’s simple, cheap and effective. This system is a patch work with too many moving parts but hopefully it will evolve to something better.
>“Buy this or else. Oh you can’t afford it? Looks like or else.”
I’m confused on that point myself, that’s why it should just come straight from taxes rather than being weirdly singled out.
>Do you think I just auto-bob my head if something is stamped with an elephant logo?
Um… I hate stereotypes but from what I can tell most rightwing Republicans do. At least that’s what I saw during the Bush years. I’m wondering if that will hold with Mitt, the left seems to mock him the deep right seems to hate him or at the very least have a fair amount of contempt.
>My question is about the Court saying the penalty is a tax, what will this mean?
It means that Roberts was able to give approval to something he approved of in a way that was consistent with his politics and legal interpretation? At least that’s my theory, if you deconstruct what taxes are I guess he’s right but it’s such an abstraction that it seems a little contrived.
In the end people are going to get health care, I find it hard to argue against that.
Thursday was a very important day as far as new. 1. the Supreme Court Ruling. 2. Eric Holder was officially held on a contempt charge by the House (which is a historical first), 3. Congress decided to End the Fed, and lastly we have Venerable Fulton Sheen.
Congress ended the Fed?
Audit the Fed, not end it
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/27/us-usa-fed-audit-idUSBRE85Q1LM20120627?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FPoliticsNews+%28Reuters+Politics+News%29
Salvage,
I agree we need some level of support for everyone in this country. I worry about how it will be put into practice.
I’m also still upset about a law getting rammed through that nobody seems to have read.
We moderns can still learn from the Scholastics and define our terms before arguing.
Salvage,
If you have been ignoring my questions, then my conclusion can be that you have no answer. If not, please enlighten the darkness of my mind. If so, thank you for proving to me that your position is not based in reason.
Wishing you happiness…
>I agree we need some level of support for everyone in this country. I worry about how it will be put into practice.
Well there will be mistakes, and snafus and waste as there always is with anything complex but the rest of the world has found ways to make it work I don’t think it beyond America’s abilities.
>I’m also still upset about a law getting rammed through that nobody seems to have read.
Well the SCOTUS read it they seem to think it okay, barely.
And that describes pretty much every law.
@CatholicSkywalker
http://www.splendoroftruth.com/curtjester/2012/06/so-unlike-your-christ/#comment-52954
There was another bishop between Sheen and Clarke who reigned for about a decade.
Salvage,
So do I take by your last message that you have no answer? Your silence on the matter will suffice for me as indication that you do not.
[…] as the Curt Jester pointed out, on July 15, Bishop Clark reaches that age when one submits resignation letters to the Vatican. […]
CatholicSkywalker, I do believe you’ve made a hit, a very palpable hit.
Um. No, what she did was decide that the discussion would be some thing about defining happiness or The Good and that doesn’t interest me. What interests me is why anyone would think sustaining poverty to feed their god’s appetite for misery is a good thing.
Bishop Sheen, pray for us! Do ya’ll recall when he spoke of wasted suffering? About offering ourselves completely? I was thinking that only God could enable us to see and experience joy in and during abject misery. Maybe someday salvage will understand…
S.W., I’ve enjoyed your philosophy discussions – definitely not my subject 😉 yet very interesting nonetheless.
>I was thinking that only God could enable us to see and experience joy in and during abject misery.
So your god makes you see nice things happen while bad things are going on? Yeah, that’s so much better than making the bad things stop or not letting them start in the first place.
These of course are the ways theists twist reality and sense to maintain their belief in not only their god’s existence but benevolence.
Yeah, I knew you’d say that. There’s a price for never letting anything bad happen, but I doubt you’d be interested, but what do I know?
I knew that the concept would be incomprehensible – joy in the suffering has absolutely nothing to do with nice things.
>There’s a price for never letting anything bad happen, but I doubt you’d be interested,
What price would that be and who would pay it?
Think of the Chinese curse “may you live in interesting times”
Okay, that means that interesting times are usually historic which often means violent and unpleasant, like WWII or being in New York on 9-11.
Not sure I see the connection?