Spiritual Legacy of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

The Spiritual Legacy of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

By: Fr. Charles P. Connor, S.T.L., Ph.D.

He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Television Personality in 1952, eclipsing TV giants Lucille Ball, Edward R. Murrow, Frank Sinatra, and Milton Berle. Twenty million viewers would tune in to his groundbreaking TV series, Life Is Worth Living. Billy Graham called him “the great communicator.” Yet, behind the celebrity and eloquence, Venerable Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) was, above all, a priest—tirelessly pursuing souls for Christ.

As his cause for canonization advances, his voice continues to resound around the world through his seventy—three bestselling books, twenty years’ worth of television and radio programs, and scores of articles and columns, which continue to produce countless conversions to the Faith.

In these pages, you’ll encounter gripping stories of Sheen’s uncanny ability to read hearts, win back the wandering, and draw even non—Catholics to Christ, sometimes through a single conversation. His life reveals a priest who never compromised the truth yet spoke it with a tenderness that disarmed sinners and restored the lost.

Paperback

241 Pages

2025

EWTN

ISBN: 9781682784457