Word: monsignor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late Inventor and Utilitycoon Thomas Edward Murray; and Henry Ford II, 22, eldest son of Edsel Bryant Ford, grandson and namesake of Motor Manufacturer Henry Ford; in Southampton, L. I. Born a Protestant, the groom was tutored in the Catholic faith and married by the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Fulton John Sheen, who at the conclusion of the ceremony announced: "Pope Pius XII sends his apostolic blessing to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford II." Among the 600 guests: the Harvey Firestone Jr.'s, William S. Knudsens, John F. Crosbys, former Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, Mrs. Joseph Kennedy, wife...
...Radiorating Father Coughlin. Last week a son of Mother Church in whom she can take greater pride (he, as well as Father Coughlin, counts his hearers in millions) celebrated his tenth anniversary as a radio preacher on the National Council of Catholic Men's weekly Catholic Hour (NBC). Monsignor Fulton John Sheen celebrated the occasion appropriately, by preaching over the radio. His subject: "Memories...
Lean, black-a-vised, hollow-eyed, Monsignor Sheen is a persuasive, lucid speaker, with a well-cultivated voice, who can make religion sensible and attractive to great masses of people. Though his official job is teaching philosophy at the Catholic University in Washington, he fills 150 speaking dates a year. Three weeks ago he did not let an attack of grippe keep him from engagements in St. Louis and Cleveland, nor a fever of 102° prevent him from preaching at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, where for the tenth year he was Lenten orator...
That was probably the last time that anyone suggested that there was anything inadequate about Fulton J. Sheen. With the spread of the Catholic Hour (from 22 to 95 NBC stations), Monsignor Sheen gets 3,000 to 6,000 letters a day, the Hour itself draws 27,000 a week, has mailed out 1,750,000 copies of Orator Sheen's talks...
Take away Father Coughlin's microphone and Social Justice and there would be little left but a parish priest. But Monsignor Sheen is much more than a pulpiteer: he is one of the Church's ablest converters. Much in demand for instructing converts, he spends ten hours a week at this quiet, heart-&-soul job. Some of his more notable converts: the late Hoovercrat Horace A. Mann and his wife, the late Heywood Broun, whom Monsignor Sheen baptized, gave last rites to and buried (TIME, Jan. 1). Monsignor Sheen is now preparing Henry Ford's grandson Henry...