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...does he do it? What divine-or possibly sinister-gift does the man possess? This question has often struck dazed spectators of thin, hollow-eyed Msgr. Fulton John Sheen's success, year after year, in converting Americans to Catholicism-Columnist Heywood Broun, Capitalist Henry Ford II, Communist Louis Budenz, Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce and hundreds of others...
Last week students of the phenomenon were given a valuable specimen of the Monsignor's art: a record album (Angelus Recording, $6.75) containing eight of his best speeches. Protestants who felt they could safely risk exposure to Sheen's preachments could satisfy their curiosity. Catholics could admire the voice of their Church's best-known pulpit and radio orator. The records were issued by Sheen's longtime admirer, Edward Dukoff, who is pressagent for Comedian Danny Kaye. Dukoff, a tall, nervous Jew, has so far not entered the Church...
...records represent Sheen's public sermons rather than apologetics in camera, for prospective converts,, but they strikingly reveal both his manner and his matter. The manner: lucid confidence, forceful but not bullying. There is no shying from the emotional appeal or the resonant tremolo as he intones...
...Sheen's laryngeal effects; oratory is a flamboyant and shameless...
...Futilitarian Christian gadflies like Professor Reinhold Niebuhr among the Protestants and Dr. Fulton J. Sheen among the Catholics are filling the air with their veiled terrestrial defeatism. No hope for mankind on earth but in heaven if you believe. . . . No, the leap into supernaturalism, which hungry hearts took two thousand years ago to compensate for their frustrations, is hardly proof to intelligent minds today of the existence of such a world...