As the story goes, Padre Pio said the inventor of refrigeration went to heaven, and when asked about the inventor of television, he pointed down. Fulton Sheen went on television and preached Christ to millions of Americans every week. The day after the Church beatified Sheen, author Mary O'Regan joins Joe McClane to explain what Padre Pio saw coming in the media age, and who the men were that tried to shut him away. Plus: Dr. Anthony Stine on Blessed Fulton Sheen, Pope Leo XIV's first day in France, and the fight over the Seal of Confession in the United Kingdom.

At 4:14 ET, Dr. Anthony Stine joins Joe for the week's news. On Thursday, 24 September 2026, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle beatified Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen before some 50,000 people at the Dome at America's Center in St. Louis, the first American-born bishop beatified on U.S. soil. His feast is 9 December. Today Pope Leo XIV began his apostolic journey to France, with stops in Paris, Saint-Denis, Lourdes and Metz and an address at UNESCO. And in England, a new mandatory-reporting law for child abuse has reopened the question every Catholic priest already knows the answer to: the Seal of Confession is inviolable, and no confessor may betray a penitent for any reason.

At 4:30 ET, Mary O'Regan, author of "Padre Pio and You: An Epic Story of Spiritual Fatherhood" (Sophia Institute Press), on the friar's warnings about what the screen would do to souls and to the family, the churchmen who worked to restrict and suppress him, and why his spiritual fatherhood is still on offer to anyone who asks for it.

SCRIPTURE (Douay-Rheims):

• Philippians 4:8 - "For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline, think on these things."
• Matthew 5:11 - "Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake."

REFERENCED:

• Beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, St. Louis (24 September 2026)
• Apostolic Journey of Pope Leo XIV to France and UNESCO (25-28 September 2026)
• Crime and Policing Act (England) - mandatory reporting duty, in force 2027
• Code of Canon Law, can. 983 - the sacramental seal is inviolable

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• Padre Pio and You - Mary O'Regan - https://sophiainstitute.com/product/padre-pio-and-you/

Blessed Fulton Sheen, pray for us. St. Pio of Pietrelcina, pray for us.

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