Word: sheen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...above the speaker's purple zucchetto (skull cap), picked up the resonant tones of his voice-soft, yet suggesting the possibility of thunder-and spirited them across the land to more than 2,000,000 TV viewers. The voice belonged to His Excellency the Most Reverend Fulton J. Sheen, auxiliary Bishop of New York, perhaps the most famous preacher in the U.S., certainly America's best-known Roman Catholic priest, and the newest star of U.S. television. Telegenic Cleric...
...very sheen of the achievement that exposed the shabbiness of Western diplomacy across the Pacific. In Korea, the major allies of triumphant Lisbon listlessly pursued a stalemate. In Indo-China, French forces fell back from the hard-won gains made by the late General de Lattre de Tassigny. On Washington's high levels there was talk that sounded like defeatism for the Pacific, e.g., that U.S. air power lies virtually at the mercy of a Chinese Communist buildup which now numbers 1,700 planes (including 900 jets...
...speak of freedom, we do not mean "freedom to do what we wish," but rather, "freedom to do what we ought." I could elaborate on this statement with various examples, but if you are interested in it, you may find an enlightening article on "True Freedom" by Bishop Fulton Sheen...
...Bishop Sheen's message in his TV debut: man yearns for life, truth and love. The human forms of these things are imperfect, ephemeral. But in God, man finds pure life, pure truth, pure love-"that is the definition of God." After a 20-minute talk in which he stressed Christian fundamentals rather than specific Catholic dogmas, the bishop answered questions from the studio audience. Sample: "Why does God permit evil in the world?" Answer: in giving man freedom, God gave him the freedom to choose between good & evil. Without the devil, there could be no saint; without...
This week, as the mail continued to pile in, Du Mont and Bishop Sheen were planning to continue the series indefinitely, as one of Du Mont's "public service" shows...