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Leo XIV, Fulton Sheen, and the Catholic American Heartland, by Greg Cook – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Screenshot . Ven. Fulton Sheen, Pope Leo XIV

By Greg Cook, Crisis Magazine, June 10, 2025

Greg Cook is a writer living with his wife in New York’s North Country. He earned two master’s degrees, including one in public administration from The Evergreen State College. He is the author of two poetry collections: Against the Alchemists, and A Verse Companion to Romano Guardini’s ‘Sacred Signs’.

From Fulton Sheen to Robert Prevost (now Pope Leo XIV), American Catholicism is in its ascendancy.

Greg CookEvery American state boasts of its residents who have become famous. Illinois is no exception, and its list features American leaders of the highest level: Lincoln, Reagan, Sheen, and now Robert Prevost (Pope Leo XIV). Until the recent papal election, Ven. Sheen was probably the most-recognized American Catholic figure. But instead of seeing one man surpassed by another in the popular imagination, we should see the ascent of an American-born pope as a continuation of Sheen’s legacy in several ways.

Two items on that list are unsurprising: engagement with the world for the proclamation of Christ, and personal devotion to Mary. Two other links between Sheen and the new pope are less obvious: their appreciation for the Catholic Eastern churches, and the pope’s election on Sheen’s birthday, May 8. A final question regarding the two churchmen from Illinois might be: Will Leo open the door to Sheen’s stalled path to beatification?  …..

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