The Truth About the Sheen Snub

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🗓️ 7 December 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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In this video, I summarize the story so far of the sudden postponement of the Bishop Fulton Sheen beatification, which had been slated for December 21, 2019.

I also provide some important context for the lead up to the "Sheen Cause Pause," and give you the lowdown on WHY it was halted, as well as give a short introduction to the great man himself.

In his day Bishop Sheen was a household name.

Every aspect of his very public life has undergone extraordinary scrutiny already. The miraculous raising of the dead of young James Fulton Engstrom is a certified bona fide miracle (see my interview with his mother Bonnie in the link below), and Pope Francis himself authorized Bishop Sheen as worthy of beatification.

But...the Diocese of Rochester confirmed last Thursday that it had requested a delay of the beatification of Archbishop Fulton Sheen, which had been scheduled for Dec. 21 until it was postponed indefinitely earlier this week.

The Diocese of Peoria says the Rochester Diocese has left out key facts as to WHY.

This is what this video addresses.

The bottomline is, Fulton J Sheen is clean. The screeching halt to his Cause, was orchestrated by Bishop Salvatore Matano of Rochester (Rome sources say he was abetted by Cardinals Cupich of Chicago and Dolan of New York—no surprise there). It's a sham.

Does Cardinal Dolan's silence in particular have something, maybe, possibly something to do with the fact that he lost in four different legal Appeals in a row—costing the faithful of New York hundreds of thousands of dollars for high-priced attorneys to keep Bishop Sheen’s body in Saint Pat’s Cathedral?

Will no US bishops stand up in defense of their brother bishop and sainthood candidate?

In the end, Catholics should be glad the Cause was halted. I explain why in this video.

Venerable Fulton J Sheen, Ora Pro Nobis.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Patrick Coffin. I'm going to put a lot of information all in one place here on the postponement of the
0:09.6	Beatification of Archbishop Fulton Sheen, because I don't think you have the full story if it's just
0:15.4	snippets you've been reading on the internet and so on. In this video I want to
0:20.0	provide some context for the lead-up to the
0:23.3	badification which had been slated by the Holy See for December 21st, 2019
0:27.8	and give you some background on why it was halted
0:30.7	and by whom what the official story is as well as first of all say
0:34.8	some things about Bishop Sheen himself and why he's not exactly the kind of
0:38.4	prelate that Pope Francis likes to honor and this is where we can find a bright silver lining in an otherwise dark cloud.
0:46.1	Through this snub of a postponement, Bishop Sheen is still purifying the church and her people, the people he gave his life for. More in that
0:55.1	purification in a few minutes. Who was Fulton J Sheen? He was born in
0:59.8	1895 in El Paso, Illinois, was ordained to the priesthood in 1919, born and raised in Peoria.
1:07.0	You could almost call Bishop Sheen a prodigy because his intellectual brilliance was discovered early on, and he was sent after ordination to the
1:14.8	Catholic University of Levine in Belgium to do a doctorate which is now published as God and
1:20.4	Intelligence featuring a forward by his longtime friend G. K. Chesterton.
1:24.6	For that doctorate, he was awarded the prestigious Cardinal Mercier Prize for academic excellence.
1:30.2	For over 20 years, he taught philosophy at the Catholic University of America
1:33.4	and hosted a weekly radio show on NBC from 1930 to 1950 called the Catholic Hour.
1:39.8	Monsignor Sheen was consecrated auxiliary Bishop of New York in 1951 and within a year was asked to host an off-hours, almost experimental broadcast on the small Dumont network in New York, which became his signature TV show,
1:55.0	Life is Worth Living.
1:56.2	Sheen wrote over 60 books, he won two Emmy awards and made the cover of Time magazine.
2:00.8	It's safe to say that in his day Bishop Sheen was a household name. But he also had a reputation
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