Word: sheen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said, to TIME'S eternal credit, that its April 14 cover article ennobled one of God's noblemen. The Bishop Sheen story, like the Marian Anderson story [TIME, Dec. 30, 1946], will long be remembered as a superlative piece of biographical writing. Seldom have the spirit, the dedication and the intellect of a man been so completely captured...
Your article about Bishop Sheen was tops. A man so successful is a subject of interest to all ... Nevertheless, how can the average citizen forget that he gets wide publicity in the press such as his church does not allow when it is in control of a country...
...done a wonderful job of introducing and explaining Bishop Sheen to those who may wonder what a Roman Catholic clergyman is doing on television. Too many people (Roman Catholics included) have the feeling that priests should be as inconspicuous as possible, lest someone think that Rome is running...
Unfinished Business. Holy week will be a busy one for Bishop Sheen. On Tuesday he does two TV shows (one put on film for future use, when Sheen goes to Europe). Wednesday he preaches at St. Peter's Church on Staten Island, Thursday he addresses the Franciscan Sisters of Mary. On Good Friday, he faces the grueling ordeal of two three-hour services (12-3 in the afternoon; 7-10 in the evening) at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral, during which he does not sit down once, and twice preaches seven sermons, one for each...
...millions who will listen to Sheen's words, the meaning of Easter in mid-20th century should be particularly significant. For modern man seems to live in a Good Friday age. Sheen believes that man, his faith in God shaken, has retreated within his own self, but has found there no peace, only shallow and temporary comforts. Disillusioned by a welter of scientific and political cure-alls, he looks for resurrection, but too often he wants it without sacrifice and before death -"promises of salvation without a cross, abandonment without sacrifices, Christ without His nails." Adds Sheen: "There...