Word: sheen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JACKIE GLEASON SHOW (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and Gene Kelly, among others, salute "the Great One" on his 51st birthday...
Last week the Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen, the vigorous new Catholic bishop of Rochester, N.Y. (TIME, Feb. 10), startled his flock by announcing that the confirmation age in his diocese would be raised to that of normal high school graduation; in Rochester, as in most other U.S. Catholic dioceses, children have traditionally been confirmed between the ages of nine and twelve. Explaining the change, Sheen declared: "At present, bishops are asked to confirm tots and send them out as soldiers of Christ. Confirmation should not be administered generally before the candidate is ready to exercise his lay priesthood...
...Balm. Sheen's proposal points up a growing debate within the Catholic Church itself over the significance of confirmation. The traditional view is that the rite, intimately related to the sacrament of baptism, marks a child's spiritual entry into the body of the church, and therefore should take place at an early age. Some bishops and theologians agree with Sheen that it makes more pastoral sense to administer the sacrament only when the confirmant is old enough to understand his commitment. The words and acts of the ritual tend to support this view: when the bishop anoints...
...Sheen, whose current television series was taped before he went to Rochester, has lost none of his flair for phrase making. Describing the church's problems in one pastoral letter, he wrote: "God is telling us something in the new situation in which we find ourselves. The rending of the veil of the Temple in an earthquake opened up the Holy of Holies to the world, and the earthquake of secularism has shaken us out of hiddenness and complacency...
...complacent man himself, Sheen works an 18-hour day, and has given up his twice-weekly tennis game. The way he is going, he may be remembered as the best bishop Rochester ever had -instead of the man who rivaled Milton Berle in the Nielsen ratings...