Life is Worth Living | Episode 38 | How to Compare World Religions | Fulton Sheen

Fulton John Sheen, was born May 8, 1895 in Illinois and was ordained a priest of the diocese of Peoria in Peoria, IL on September 20, 1919. In 1930, after just eleven years of priesthood, Sheen began hosting a weekly Sunday night radio broadcast called The Catholic Hour. This broadcast captured many devoted listeners, reportedly drawing an audience of four million people every week for two decades. In 1951, Sheen was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdioceses of New York, the same year he started Life is Worth Living. Life is Worth Living ran until 1957. Bishop Sheen hosted another television series, The Fulton Sheen Program, running from 1961 to 1968 that closely modeled the Life is Worth Living series.
In 1979 Fulton J. Sheen received his greatest accolade when Pope John Paul II embraced him and said, "You have written and spoken well of the Lord Jesus. You are a loyal son of the Church." With that last acknowledgement, Fulton Sheen passed into eternal life just two months later on December 9, 1979.
Bishop Fulton Sheen was scheduled for beatification (the process of becoming a saint in the Catholic Church) on December 21, 2019, at the Cathedral of St. Mary in Peoria. On December 3, 2019, the Diocese of Peoria announced that the beatification of Sheen would be delayed.

[@305areacode4]

Venerable Fulton Sheen was a gift to the world.

[@DogSniffing]

8 minutes in for the Napoleon take down. Napoleon never existed.

[@Lerian_V]

Yeah, he's not a historical figure.

[@gabetheformerforddriver5034]

Simplifying an argument for the sake of saving time during a television program does not constitute a strawman, as the two other idiots in this comment section claim.

[@305areacode4]

Exactly. Not to mention these were all off the top of his head. He prepared well for them, but did not follow a script or use cards.

[@peterblock6964]

Well, that was a master class in how to set up a strawman and then demolish it. But he did do it with much charisma, costumed flair, and panache.

[@brockaho6155]

Lol I read your comment right as I came to the end. My thoughts exactly

[@videonmode8649]

What do you mean?

[@peterblock6964]

@@videonmode8649, Here's the definition per Wikipedia: "A straw man fallacy is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction. One who engages in this fallacy is said to be 'attacking a straw man'."

[@videonmode8649]

@@peterblock6964 So what's your argument against Fulton Sheen?

[@peterblock6964]

That he is worthless as an apologist,@@videonmode8649.