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Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen in 1952 (photo: Fred Palumbo / World Telegram / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain)
By Joseph Pronechen, EWTN News, March 16, 2019
Joseph Pronechen is staff writer with the National Catholic Register since 2005 and before that a regular correspondent for the paper. His articles have appeared in a number of national publications including Columbia magazine, Soul, Faith and Family, Catholic Digest, Catholic Exchange, and Marian Helper.
Among Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s saintly insights and wisdom to keep us on the right path are his teachings on the mistaken notions of mercy.
From his television and radio shows to his many writings, Archbishop Futon Sheen shared one prophetic insight after another into the way faith relates to life.
He explained the time-bound in terms of the timeless. He did that in a convincing, direct way. Consider the subject of mercy.
“As the world grows soft, it uses more and more the word mercy,” he wrote back in 1949. The good bishop found this a “praiseworthy characteristic” on a particular condition: “if mercy were understood aright.” ….
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