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Venerable Fulton Sheen: "If our will is determined by forces outside of ourselves, we no longer...
Gloria Romanorum ^ | 4/13/19 | Florentius

Posted on 04/15/2019 6:42:40 AM PDT by Antoninus

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To: CondorFlight
I remember watching Bishops Sheen as a child. We all did, sitting together in the living room with our one black and white TV set.

After WW II and in the decade after Korea there was a sociocultural consensus in America that was destroyed in the 60’s and will likely never come again.

Yes America was a great Nation then, and it was great to be an American.

21 posted on 04/15/2019 8:44:43 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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Indeed. And he took to the air at a time when anti-Catholic bias was far greater than now. His broadcasts helped many non- Catholics see a positive side of RCC teaching ... including many things they could agree with- or at least respect.


22 posted on 04/15/2019 10:58:48 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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