FULTON SHEEN SAID SOMETHING ABOUT SUFFERING MOST OF US DON’T WANT TO HEAR.

What if the suffering you’re trying so desperately to get rid of could actually become something redemptive?

This week on The Catholic Couple Podcast, we sit down with Chantal Howard, author of Show Me Your Scars: Fulton Sheen’s Theology of Suffering for a Wounded World, for a powerful conversation about Fulton Sheen’s understanding of suffering, wounds, healing, and the Cross.

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Sheen never pretended suffering was easy.

But he believed that when our suffering is united to Christ, it doesn’t have to be wasted.

Our wounds can become places of grace.

Our crosses can become places of transformation.

And the very thing we wish God would take away may become something He uses to draw us closer to Him.

Chantal and her husband, Dr. Peter Howard, are deeply involved in the Fulton Sheen Movement, which is helping bring Sheen’s spirituality and mission to a new generation. (Amazon Music⁠)

And this month, something historic is happening.

On Wednesday, September 23, the Fulton Sheen Movement is hosting Fulton Sheen: America’s Saint at the Hilton St. Louis Frontenac from 9 AM–9 PM.

It will be a full day of talks, Mass, Eucharistic Adoration, prayer and fellowship featuring speakers including Arthur Brooks, Tammy Peterson, Msgr. Roger Landry, Sr. Dede Byrne, Dr. Peter Howard and more.
https://fultonsheenconference.com/

Then the next day—September 24, 2026—Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen will be beatified at The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis. (Fulton Sheen Conference⁠)

We’ll be in St. Louis as the Church prepares to celebrate one of the great Catholic communicators of the modern age.

And this conversation with Chantal is one you do not want to miss.

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As we prepare for the beatification of America’s Fulton Sheen, maybe one of the most important lessons we can rediscover is this:

Your suffering does not have to be wasted.

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