ST. LOUIS (OSV News) — Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen — the 20th-century American theologian, evangelizer, Catholic communications pioneer, teacher and preacher — is now Blessed Fulton Sheen. Cardinal ...

One-truck owner-operator Richard Yeager, based in Northeast Tennessee, grew up in the trucking business and has been doing it himself “as long as I’ve been able to get around the truck,” he said. His ...

When he was a child, Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori wrote to then-Bishop Fulton J. Sheen asking for prayers for his father, who was about to undergo back surgery. The famed televangelist, who ...

Clergy process at the start of the beatification Mass for Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Sept. 24, 2026, at The Dome at America's Center in St. Louis. Credit: OSV News photo/Bob Roller ST. LOUIS (OSV News ...

For Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s beatification in St. Louis, teenager James Fulton Engstrom presented Cardinal Luis Tagle, the main celebrant, with a first-class relic of Sheen: the mandible, the jawbone ...

Thursday, the Catholic Church declared Illinois-born Archbishop Fulton Sheen “Blessed” at his Mass of Beatification held at The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis, Missouri. On behalf of Pope Leo ...

The beatification Mass for Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen took place at The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis on Sept. 24 with tens of thousands of the faithful in attendance. Pope Leo XIV issued a ...

In the former home of the NFL’s St. Louis Rams on Thursday Sept. 24, there was an unusual option beside the popcorn and soft drinks: T-shirts bearing the face of a Catholic archbishop. Tens of ...

Born Peter John Sheen in 1895 in El Paso, Illinois, while later adopting his mother's maiden name "Fulton" as his own in his youth, the future Blessed Fulton J. Sheen was ordained a priest of the ...

At the beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen in St Louis, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle reflects on the missionary vocation of the American bishop, whose preaching reached millions through radio ...

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, the former Auxiliary Bishop of New York, is one step away from sainthood in the Catholic Church after Thursday's beatification service. The occasion was both solemn and ...

He was born in El Paso, near Bloomington. He took his holy orders in Peoria, where he is entombed. This Illinoisan now is a near-saint with a feast day celebrated Dec. 9. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen ...