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Pope John Paul II embracing Archbishop Fulton Sheen at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, October 2, 1979. (photo: Sheen Foundation)

By Joseph Pronechen, EWTN News, September 20, 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. …

This article originally appeared Feb. 4, 2019, at the Register.

 

“The only way out of this crisis is spiritual. … The time is nearer than you think.”

Joseph PronechenDid Archbishop Fulton Sheen prophesy about these times?

In a talk 72 years ago, Bishop Fulton Sheen appeared as visionary as prophets of old.

“We are at the end of Christendom.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen said during a talk in 1947. Making clear he didn’t mean Christianity or the Church, he said, “Christendom is economic, political, social life as inspired by Christian principles. That is ending — we’ve seen it die. Look at the symptoms: the breakup of the family, divorce, abortion, immorality, general dishonesty.”

Prophetic then, he was already a visionary and forewarning in the Jan. 26, 1947, radio broadcast.  …