Catholicism: The Pivotal Players — Season 1, Episode 9: Fulton J. Sheen: The Communicator

Episode synopsis

A brilliant academic, Catholic prelate, writer, evangelist, and television personality, Fulton J. Sheen was also a mesmerizing public speaker, endowed with extraordinary oratorical gifts, a charming sense of humor, and a magnetic personal presence. At the height of his fame, Sheen’s radio program, The Catholic Hour, had an audience of four million and his television show Life is Worth Living was viewed by an estimated thirty million people each week. He had the courage and the imagination to use the new media in the mid-twentieth century to engage a world growing increasingly skeptical of Christianity.

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More episodes from Season 1

• E1St. Francis of Assisi - The Reformer
• E2St. Thomas Aquinas: The Theologian
• E3St. Catherine of Siena: The Mystic
• E4Bl. John Henry Newman: The Convert
• E5G.K. Chesterton: The Evangelist
• E6Michelangelo: The Artist
• E7St. Augustine of Hippo: The Teacher
• E8St. Benedict of Nursia: The Monk
• E10Flannery O’Connor: The Storyteller
• E11St. Ignatius of Loyola: The Founder
• E12Bartolomé de las Casas: The Activist