Over 20 years ago, Raymond Arroyo helped lay the groundwork for moving Venerable Fulton J. Sheen’s cause for canonization, and the story behind it is deeply personal. When Raymond was a young reporter dating a non-Catholic woman, a priest handed him a box of Fulton Sheen’s cassette tapes for converts and told him to “make a deal” with Sheen at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
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Raymond promised that if Fulton Sheen helped bring Rebecca into the Catholic Church, he would do everything he could to get Sheen back on television. Years later at EWTN, a documentary Raymond worked on impressed the rights holder so much that he granted EWTN permission to air Fulton Sheen’s show every week after The World Over—fulfilling that promise in a powerful way.
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Both men kept their word, and that grace-filled exchange is why Fulton Sheen holds such a special place in Raymond Arroyo’s heart to this day.