148 Quotes & Sayings By Fulton J Sheen
Fulton John Sheen, born March 8, 1899, in Brooklyn, New York, died January 27, 1980, in Bedford Hills, Westchester County, New York. He was a popular Catholic priest and televangelist. The son of a well-known Brooklyn family, he was the second of three children. After his father's death when he was seven years old his mother moved to Yonkers
At the age of twelve he made his first communion and was confirmed at seventeen. He continued his studies at St. Peter's Seminary in Yonkers for two years after which he entered the novitiate of the order of St.
John Regis at Westonville in Massachusetts. At age twenty-five he was ordained a priest by Cardinal Farley of New York on December 10, 1927. He spent the next ten years as an assistant pastor in various parishes in New Jersey and Brooklyn before being transferred to St.
Gregory's Church in Manhattan where he remained for seven years. In 1947 he was assigned to St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City where he remained until 1954 when he became rector of St.
Francis Xavier's parish on Staten Island for two years before coming to Bedford Hills as pastor emeritus in 1958 where he remained for another two years. During this period he also began his television career as an anchor and host on TWIS (Television Without Intimidation). His last TV show aired on September 30, 1965 and was titled Sunday Evening Hour: Fulton Sheen: The Man and His Message and featured interviews with former President Harry S Truman and other notable personalities such as Ernest Hemingway, Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Groucho Marx.
