Diocese of Peoria

Just days after the official portrait of Blessed Fulton J. Sheen was unveiled at the Mass of his beatification Sept. 24, another image — an icon — was introduced and …

Announcement made at Mass celebrated by New York bishop Blessed Sheen baptized EL PASO, Ill. (OSV News) — St. Mary Catholic Church in El Paso, Illinois, will become part of …

The bishop, clergy and faithful of the Diocese of Peoria returned home from St. Louis to celebrate a series of thanksgiving Masses for the Sheen beatification.

“When you pray for the intercession of Fulton Sheen,” Bishop Tylka said, “I would hope that you pray that you are inspired by his witness first and foremost.”

Bonnie Engstrom had prayed to Archbishop Sheen during her pregnancy and she begged his help in 2010 as doctors prepared to pronounce her newborn dead.

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen — the 20th-century theologian, evangelizer and Catholic communications pioneer — “opened the door to the evangelization of the world,” said Bishop Barron a day before the …

Father Alindogan said that “Sheen also understood something else: Prayer cannot end in the chapel.”

Holy Hours, Masses, and a pre-beatification morning of prayer and reflection lead up to the beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Sept. 24 in St. Louis.

“We still have the chair that Archbishop Sheen sat in when he would preach here at Saint Agnes,” said parish office manager Anna Megan.

Tickets to the September 2026 beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen are quickly being snapped up.