Fulton Sheen, a Staunch Defender of the Second Vatican Council and the Poor, to Be Beatified

Fifty-six years ago, he defended the Council to William F. Buckley on national television. On Thursday, the cardinal Pope Leo XIV sent will call him Blessed.

Fulton J. Sheen, whose broadcasts reached millions of Americans in the 1950s and 1960s, will be beatified in St. Louis on Thursday.

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