After more than two decades since the opening of his cause for canonisation, Archbishop Fulton Sheen will be beatified.

Dubbed “The Bishop of Television”, Fulton Sheen was born in El Paso, Illinois, into a devout Catholic family of Irish descent. Immediately after finishing high school, he entered St Paul Seminary in Minnesota and was ordained a priest on September 20, 1919, for the Diocese of Peoria at the age of just 24. Recognised for his academic ability, his bishop, Bishop Edmund Michael Dunne, sent him to the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, where he earned a doctorate in philosophy in 1923. His doctoral thesis focused on the philosophy of knowledge, particularly the work of Cardinal John Henry Newman. He then joined the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, in 1926, where he taught philosophy for more than twenty years.

In 1930, he began hosting the radio programme The Catholic Hour on NBC, which aired nationally and continued for two decades. In 1951, Pope Pius XII appointed him auxiliary bishop of New York and titular bishop of Caesariana.

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