By Joseph Pronechen, EWTN News - July 4 is a red- white- and blue-letter day to recall the Declaration of Independence. Who better to give insights about it than Archbishop Fulton Sheen? As perceptive and prophetic as ever of what was to come decades later, Venerable Sheen wrote the book A Declaration of Dependence in 1941, when the United States entered World War II... “The Declaration of Independence, I repeat, is a Declaration of Dependence,” Sheen emphasized. He continues: We are independent of dictators because we are dependent on God ....