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Saturday, April 04, 2009

"Boy, Have You Got A Crazy Sponsor!"
And may God bless Dorothy Kilgallen

Joyfully stolen from The Curt Jester.

Simplex Vir said...: The man in me cries out for the return of this mans courage and leadership.

Look at the respect these people showed him. Awesome!; 10:30 AM
Viator Catholicus said...: I had the same reaction as Simplex Vir.
How times have changed!; 1:35 PM
TH2 said...: It was Sheen's book "God and Intelligence" (based on his PhD thesis, ca. 1927) that brought this wretch back home into the holy fold that is Rome. I still remember how I felt after reading it - like being kicked in the face. And those eyes of his, they burned like Christ's. An intellectual giant he was and, hopefully soon, he will be canonized.
-TH2; 9:21 PM
Al said...: Yes, how times have changed.

I had the distinct pleasure of seeing him in person twice.

Here is a man who spoke the truth, called sinners to repent & represented what a Bishop should be.

& let's not forget, he was a prophet too as he warned us of where we were heading. In the years after Vatican II, the Pectoral Cross he wore was a silver one that he got at a jewelery shop in New York. He went into the shop. The Jewish owner told him he had a bunch of silver crosses from a convent & that they sold them to him because they didn't want them any more as they seperated themselves from the world.

Bishop Sheen bought them all up & wore the 1 he did in atonement for what those nuns did in selling them.; 11:26 PM