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Venerable Fulton Sheen will be beatified this year — and most people only know him from the clips. In this episode I sit down with Monsignor Jason Gray, Executive Director of the Fulton Sheen Foundation, who has worked with Sheen's cause since it opened in 2002 and helped investigate the miracle that is now bringing "America's first televangelist" to beatification.

We talk about who Fulton Sheen actually was — the most effective television evangelist this country has ever had, his daily Eucharistic holy hour, his decades of work for the missions, and why people still call him the first Catholic influencer. Monsignor Gray walks me through the astonishing miracle behind the beatification, what it takes for a miracle to be verified in Rome, and what to expect at the Beatification Mass this September. We close with the story of what St. John Paul II said to Sheen just two months before his death.

LEARN MORE ABOUT FULTON SHEEN
Everything mentioned in this episode — the cause, the upcoming beatification, tickets, the Sheen museum, and the pilgrimage — can be found at the Fulton Sheen Foundation:
► https://celebratesheen.com

Beatification Mass: September 24, 2026 • The Dome at America's Center, St. Louis, MO
Sheen Pilgrimage: September 20–23 in Peoria, IL — full schedule at https://www.celebratesheen.com/pilgrimage
Books by Fulton Sheen mentioned in this episode: Three to Get Married, and his autobiography, Treasure in Clay.

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