Fulton Sheen’s New Book On the Demonic, by Dr. Jeff Mirus 

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture, Jul 12, 2024

Jeffrey Mirus holds a Ph.D. in intellectual history from Princeton University. A co-founder of Christendom College, he also pioneered Catholic Internet services. He is the founder of Trinity Communications and CatholicCulture.org.

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, On the Demonic. Complied and edited by Fr. Dave Tomaszycki. (Emmaus Road: 2024). 220pp. Paperback or eBook: $17.95.

Five years before his death, Archbishop Fulton Sheen mentioned that he planned to write a separate book on the demonic, but at the time of his death in 1979, no such book had appeared. Fast forward to 2016, and the newly ordained Fr. Dave Tomaszycki (Archdiocese of Detroit) became very interested in this intention of Archbishop Sheen’s and, given his need for a thesis topic in his study for a Licentiate in Theology, he decided to search more deeply in the Sheen archives to see whether he might find a manuscript for such a book that Sheen had not had a chance to publish.

Unfortunately, no such manuscript existed, so Fr. Tomaszycki did the next best thing: He spent a total of four years identifying and tagging everything that Archbishop Sheen had written about the demonic and then organized all the material to create a set of chapters which would amount to something akin to the book which the famous bishop had intended to write. The result, entirely in Sheen’s own words and just published by Emmaus Road, is On the Demonic, some 200 pages of Archbishop Sheen at his best, advising us on a topic that had troubled him at least since 1952, when he could already clearly see that demonic activity was on the rise in the United States, the West generally, and around the world. …

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