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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...
...enjoyed your article on Fulton Sheen. He portrays Christian Truth in his programs only because he omits the relics, superstitions, traditions and nonBiblical hocus-pocus of the Roman Church...
...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...