OPEN LETTER FOR THE URGENT BEATIFICATION OF VENERABLE FULTON J. SHEEN
A Providential Call for America
October 16, 2025
“Who is going to save our Church? Not our bishops, not our priests and Religious. It’s up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes, the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops act like bishops, and your Religious act like Religious.”
— Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Address to the Knights of Columbus for receiving the “Catholic Man of Action” Award, May 28, 1972, Our Lady of Czestochowa Shrine, Doylestown, PA
AN OPEN LETTER FOR THE URGENT BEATIFICATION OF VENERABLE FULTON J. SHEEN — A PROVIDENTIAL CALL FOR AMERICA
October 16, 2025
Your Excellency, Most Reverend Louis Tylka, Bishop of Peoria; Reverend Monsignor Jason Gray, Director of the Archbishop Fulton Sheen Foundation; and dear brothers and sisters in Christ throughout America and the world,
A PROVIDENTIAL DAY IN SALVATION HISTORY — OCTOBER 16
This letter is written on a date of extraordinary providence: October 16 — a day on which Heaven has repeatedly marked decisive turning points in the life of the Church and in the spiritual destiny of the modern world.
It was on October 16, 1917, just three days after the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima, that St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe founded the Militia Immaculatae — the Army of the Immaculate One. In a chapel adorned with an image of the Sacred Heart revealing itself to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (whose feast day is October 16), Kolbe consecrated his new movement to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. In this single act, the Sacred Heart, the Immaculate Heart, and the message of Fatima were united in a divine alliance for the salvation of souls. The Militia was to become Our Lady’s army to spread her urgent message and heavenly blueprint for peace throughout the world.
Sixty-one years later, on October 16, 1978, Cardinal Karol Wojtyła was elected Pope and took the name John Paul II. From the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, he proclaimed to a fearful world, “Be not afraid!” His pontificate would defend the dignity of the human person and confront the same godless ideologies that Kolbe had offered his life to resist.
Then, on October 16, 2002, Pope John Paul II gave the Church the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary through his apostolic letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae, calling the faithful to rediscover the Light of Christ in the sacraments, marriage, and the Eucharist — the very pillars and heart of the Christian life.
I was privileged to be at the Wednesday audience with my wife, seated off to the side of Pope John Paul II to receive the Holy Father’s personal blessing for our marriage after he signed that document which now shapes the prayer of the universal Church.
For all these reasons, October 16 stands as a divine convergence — the Sacred Heart, the Immaculate Heart, the message of Fatima, St. Maximilian, and St. John Paul the Great — all united in a single mission: to bring humanity back to God through Eucharistic faith and Marian consecration. Everything this day represents was at the very heart of the mission of Venerable Fulton J. Sheen and its extension through the Fulton Sheen Movement. That this letter should be written today is no coincidence. As Sheen himself said, “God does nothing in history without the greatest finesse of detail.”
TO THE DIOCESE OF PEORIA, THE ARCHBISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN FOUNDATION, AND TO THE FAITHFUL OF AMERICA AND THE WORLD WHO LOVE VENERABLE FULTON SHEEN
Out of a deep love for Holy Mother Church and fidelity to her divine constitution, this letter is offered as an act of filial obedience and concern for the good of souls. The faithful, guided by conscience and loyalty to the Magisterium, possess both the right and the duty to speak when the welfare of the Church is at stake.
It is in this spirit that I write and appeal, fully aligned with the mind of the Church as expressed in Canon 212 of her own law:
“Christ’s faithful… have the right, indeed at times the duty, in keeping with their knowledge, competence and position, to manifest to the sacred Pastors their views on matters which concern the good of the Church. They have the right also to make their views known to others of Christ’s faithful, but in doing so they must always respect the integrity of faith and morals, show due reverence to their Pastors, and take into account both the common good and dignity of individuals.”
— Code of Canon Law, 212
For nearly six years, the faithful who revere Venerable Fulton J. Sheen — our beloved Blessed-elect — have waited with aching hearts for the celebration of his Beatification Mass, a moment long promised and yet mysteriously withheld. It is with filial respect, deep gratitude, and an abiding sense of duty that I now offer this public update and heartfelt appeal for truth and transparency regarding the ongoing obstruction of that sacred event.
THE PROVEN RECORD OF OBSTRUCTION
This update arises directly from my recent pilgrimage to Rome with my son for the historic canonizations of now Saints Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati, held on September 7. In God’s providence, that pilgrimage also became a providential mission — to fulfill a promise made to thousands who have joined the Fulton Sheen Movement worldwide: that, should I reach Rome, I would personally deliver our petition — signed by more than 14,000 souls from 99 countries — to the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, Cardinal Marcello Semeraro.
On the morning of September 5, 2025, I was received at the Dicastery by its Undersecretary, the Rev. Bogusław Turek, C.S.M.A. What I expected to be a brief hand-off of documents became, through the quiet prompting of the Holy Spirit, a thirty-minute private meeting of extraordinary grace and candor — one that Father Turek graciously allowed me to record for historical preservation in the Cause of Archbishop Sheen.
During that meeting I presented the central questions that have burdened the faithful for six long years: Why has the Beatification Mass — approved by the Holy See and scheduled for December 21, 2019 — never been rescheduled? Where exactly is the problem if both sides are saying there are no problems? And what precisely must be done now to allow the Church to proclaim officially what Heaven has already confirmed through the approved miracle of July 5, 2019? Can Rome not just intervene and get it done?
Father Turek’s answers were clear, direct, and disarmingly simple. They exposed the truth long obscured by silence and conflicting narratives.
What Father Turek confirmed in Rome only validates what Monsignor James Kruse, former Vicar General of the Diocese of Peoria, publicly revealed in his December 7, 2019 Op-Ed: that every conceivable concern about Archbishop Sheen’s handling of clergy during his brief tenure in Rochester had already been exhaustively investigated — by the Diocese of Peoria and by multiple Vatican offices (including the Congregation for the Causes of Saints and the Secretariat of State) before the December 21 beatification date was set.
All reached the same conclusion: Sheen did nothing wrong. Rome never had any doubts about its investigation or its conclusion, thanks to the diligence of the Diocese of Peoria. The Vatican’s approval of the miracle and the Holy Father’s directive for beatification confirmed that the cause had been fully and definitively examined.
Yet just as each milestone was reached — approval of the miracle, transfer of remains, announcement of a date — the Diocese of Rochester intervened with last-minute objections to derail progress. What happened in December was not an isolated event.
Monsignor Kruse’s detailed timeline exposes an unmistakable pattern of what he rightly called “sabotage.” He recounts how Father Daniel Conlon, Vicar General of the Diocese of Rochester, and Bishop Salvatore Matano sat on information for over fifteen years, only to raise their concerns within days of court rulings and Vatican approvals that advanced the cause.
Each time Sheen’s beatification moved forward — March 2019 (court approval for transfer of remains), June 2019 (transfer completed), July 2019 (Vatican miracle decree), and November 2019 (date set for December 21) — Rochester suddenly produced new “issues” that they thought could bring “possible embarrassment” to the Church regarding Venerable Fulton Sheen.
Documents were sent to the Vatican only after decisions had been made, their contents misrepresented, and then new undisclosed “cases” were claimed after exhaustive investigations had already cleared Sheen.
Even after the Vatican’s highest authorities affirmed Sheen’s innocence and scheduled the ceremony, Bishop Matano and his allies appealed again — prompting a postponement under pressure from a few American bishops, including Cardinals Timothy Dolan and Blase Cupich, who aligned with Rochester’s position under the guise of “prudence.”
In the end, Monsignor Kruse dismantles the illusion that this delay was about protecting victims or ensuring transparency. He demonstrates that Sheen’s record had already been examined with unprecedented rigor — every file, every allegation, every case cross-checked by both Peoria and Rome.
The Holy See concluded that Archbishop Sheen bore no fault and, on the contrary, acted decisively to remove abusers such as Father John Gormley.
The real motive, Kruse implies, was spiritual and political — an effort to suppress the canonization of the most prophetic Catholic voice of the twentieth century, a voice which stood in opposition to those who did not put holiness and the salvation of souls before all else in their vocation.
The Diocese of Rochester’s defiance of a Vatican-approved decree — assisted by allied prelates — stands as a chilling sign of ecclesial subversion, not to mention the personal vitriol that Fr. Conlon expressed to Monsignor Kruse toward Archbishop Sheen.
Add to that motive the public feud between the Bishop of the Diocese of Peoria and the Cardinal Archbishop of New York. The legal battle over Sheen’s mortal remains would have been extremely costly. Ultimately, the Supreme Court of the State of New York upheld the previous court decisions in favor of Joan Cunningham, the niece of Archbishop Sheen, and ordered the body of her uncle to be immediately transferred to the Diocese of Peoria — where it was originally intended to be via an agreement between Bishop Jenky and Cardinal Egan, the predecessor of Cardinal Dolan.
AFTER THE OBSTRUCTION: SILENCE, TRANSITION, AND THE RISE OF THE FULTON SHEEN MOVEMENT
Since 2019, many significant changes have taken place within both the Diocese of Peoria and the Archbishop Fulton Sheen Foundation. Shortly after the pause in 2020, Bishop Daniel Jenky, C.S.C., received a coadjutor bishop, Louis Tylka, a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago under Cardinal Blase Cupich, who would officially succeed him in 2022. Bishop Tylka inherited the torch of the Sheen Cause. In April 2023, he appointed a new director of the Archbishop Fulton Sheen Foundation, Monsignor Jason Gray, who remains in that role today.
Was the torch advanced from that point on? Sadly, no. Since the change in leadership, the flame of the Sheen Cause has dimmed rather than grown brighter. This is precisely why the Fulton Sheen Movement was founded in March 2023: to reignite the light that was being quietly smothered.
The Movement reached out to Monsignor Gray soon after his appointment to introduce ourselves, seek an update on the Beatification Mass, and explain our mission — to rally the faithful worldwide to pray, act, and restore urgency to Sheen’s cause. We made clear that our purpose was united with Peoria’s: to see the Beatification Mass rescheduled as soon as possible. Our petition, now signed by over 14,000 faithful from 99 nations, was a visible expression of that shared goal.
We were told in good faith that no further investigation was necessary. Every concern had already been addressed. Both the Diocese of Peoria and the Sheen Foundation affirmed that nothing new remained to be proven. They acknowledged that the long-delayed Attorney General’s report on clergy abuse in New York — initially cited as a reason for delay — was irrelevant to Sheen’s case and would change nothing of Rome’s judgment. Still, they maintained that they were waiting for its release — not because it was required, but to appease Bishop Matano and those supporting his efforts to block the beatification of Sheen, even after a date had been set.
In truth, no one else cared about this secular attorney general report — not the Dicastery, not the Vatican — the only opinions and judgments that matter. The Church had authoritatively spoken. Sheen’s heroic virtue was confirmed; his miracle approved; his intercession attested by Heaven itself. By every ecclesial standard, Fulton J. Sheen is Blessed. The case was open and shut.
The same distortion was on display in the August 24, 2024 World Over interview between Raymond Arroyo and Monsignor Jason Gray. While the interview initially appeared positive, Monsignor Gray’s words confirmed that the cause remains stalled under the weight of misplaced “prudence.” Pressed directly whether there was any reason, from Peoria’s perspective, to delay Sheen’s beatification, he acknowledged there was none — that Rome had no problem with the Cause and that every concern was domestic, emanating from just a few in the U.S. hierarchy who have already been mentioned.
Yet he maintained that, “out of an abundance of caution,” Peoria was waiting for the Attorney General’s report to verify what they said they already knew. He went further, adding a condition never before expressed: that Peoria would not proceed until they had the “unanimous support” of the U.S. bishops — an unnecessary and virtually impossible hurdle. We already knew of three bishops who were working against Sheen’s beatification.
That statement revealed the tragedy at the heart of this stalemate. The Diocese of Peoria — entrusted by Providence with Sheen’s Cause — continues to act as though it needs permission from the very prelates who derailed it. For six years, the faithful have been subjected to a smoke-and-mirrors illusion perpetuated by hierarchs who openly defied Rome’s judgment.
The irony is painful: the diocese once chosen to champion America’s saint has become the chief obstacle to his beatification because it is being directed not by Rome, but by those opposing the beatification — all the while implying that Rome’s judgment on Sheen could not only be flawed, but ignored. Otherwise, the beatification Mass absolutely would have been celebrated by now.
What Father Turek made clear in Rome is that all of these manufactured conditions are — and always have been — unnecessary. Rome is waiting on Peoria, not the other way around. He affirmed multiple times that the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints does not and will not advance a beatification without the cooperation and harmony of the local diocese — a weakness now exposed that must be addressed.
Regardless of excuses, the power to move this forward rests entirely in Peoria’s hands. This has absolutely nothing to do with acting “out of an abundance of caution.” That implies Rome didn’t do its job in investigating everything about Fulton Sheen’s tenure as Bishop of Rochester. And it completely ignores the significance of the approved miracle of Archbishop Sheen that was approved by Pope Francis.
If the diocese had the courage to resist and fight back on these baseless claims, it would expose this scandal for what it is: a contrived barrier built on fear, not faith.
A FILIAL APPEAL TO THE DIOCESE OF PEORIA AND THE ARCHBISHOP FULTON SHEEN FOUNDATION
To Bishop Louis Tylka, successor of Bishop Daniel Jenky, and to Monsignor Jason Gray, Director of the Archbishop Fulton Sheen Foundation, I write in a spirit of filial respect and fraternal urgency. Providence has entrusted to the Diocese of Peoria the singular honor and responsibility of shepherding the Cause of America’s great evangelist. With that privilege comes a sacred duty — not to delay, but to defend; not to hesitate, but to act.
For six years the faithful have waited in silence, confident that Peoria, which so courageously fought for Sheen’s remains and proved his sanctity before Rome, would not allow the light of his cause to be dimmed. But now that same light flickers. The faithful look to you — not for explanation, but for leadership; not for further prudence, but for the salvation of souls. The Church and the world are starving for heroes, and Heaven has already given us one.
Reverend Monsignor, Your Excellency, the laity have done their part. We have prayed, petitioned, rallied, and even carried the message to Rome. The Dicastery has spoken: nothing stands in the way. The power to move forward rests entirely in your hands. For the love of souls, for the honor of the Immaculate Heart, and for the glory of the Church, we beg you: set the date.
A PROVIDENTIAL HOUR FOR AMERICA: SHEEN AND THE NATION’S 250TH ANNIVERSARY
We now stand on the threshold of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America in 2026. At no time since its birth has this nation stood more precariously upon a knife’s edge — torn by moral collapse, corruption, division, and open apostasy among Catholics. Yet Heaven has already given to America the saint it needs for this hour — its own spiritual son and prophet, Blessed-elect Fulton J. Sheen.
Is it not astonishing that as we approach this monumental Jubilee of our nation’s founding, the secular government of the United States is preparing to honor Archbishop Sheen before the Church does? Even President Donald J. Trump has recognized Sheen’s significance and moral greatness, having announced that Fulton Sheen will be enshrined among the nation’s “Garden of American Heroes,” to be unveiled during the great anniversary celebrations.
How can it be that a secular government, unburdened by the Attorney General’s report and all the false pretenses of “prudence,” can recognize and celebrate the greatness of Fulton Sheen — while the Church he served with heroic fidelity still hesitates? Even the world sees what many in the Church refuse to acknowledge: Sheen is clean, courageous, and a hero for our times.
Fulton Sheen foresaw this moment with astonishing clarity more than eighty years ago. He warned that we were approaching the end of an era, and that democracy itself would not survive without a return to God and the Christian ethos. He wrote:
“Our so-called liberal civilization, which is dying, is only a transitional phase between a civilization that once was Christian and one that is anti-Christian. It has no stability of its own, being based for the most part in successive negations of the Christian philosophy of life. It will end either in a return to the Christian tradition or in revulsion against it. This alone constitutes the crisis of democracy; it will either return to its roots or die.”
Sheen saw that the destruction of family life and the moral rot of Marxist materialism would lead inevitably to atheistic tyranny. He warned:
“Unless there is a moral revival in our Western world and a rebirth of family life, Communism may be the instrument for the liquidation of a bourgeois civilization that has forgotten God.”
His words now resound like thunder over a collapsing civilization. America has reached the very precipice Sheen foretold:
“Whenever a civilization begins to die morally or spiritually, then there begin to appear vultures, and that is the mission of communism in the world. Communism is the scavenger of decaying civilizations. It makes its way into a country and into a culture only when that culture begins to rot from the inside. The measure of the incipient death in any civilization is the progress that communism makes. Just as soon as this culture begins to die then this winged scavenger with the mechanical wings of hammer and sickles descends upon these decaying countries in order to devour them.”
The stark reality that Sheen understood is that the time America has to refound itself on Jesus Christ is not years, but days.
Sheen is not only a saint for the Church; he is a saint for America — raised up for this very hour to lead her back to God. As the United States prepares to mark her 250th anniversary in 2026, Heaven’s timing could not be clearer. This must be the year of Fulton Sheen’s beatification — the year when the Church proclaims that the only true renewal of America will come not from politics or power, but from holiness.
To delay beyond this American Jubilee would not only squander a divine opportunity; it would risk losing forever the moment Heaven itself has prepared. And let us not forget that every day of neglect that passes is an act of grave injustice to those millions of souls who are starving to discover his wisdom and inspiring example.
WHY FULTON SHEEN’S BEATIFICATION IS NEEDED — AND NEEDED NOW
Champion of the Vulnerable
Archbishop Fulton Sheen was the true champion of the vulnerable, especially the most vulnerable. At a time when so much of the Church’s leadership remains virtually silent before the suffering of the most vulnerable — especially amid the ignored genocide of over 65,000 innocent civilian men, women, and children in Gaza; the Christian genocide taking place in Syria; the Catholic genocide taking place in Nigeria; and the genocides in Congo and Sudan — Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen stands as the voice and conscience the world desperately needs.
In an era when countless Catholics and other Christians have been deliberately targeted, displaced, and martyred, Sheen would have thundered from every pulpit and airwave in their defense. His moral courage and supernatural compassion made him a champion of the oppressed, the forgotten, and the defenseless.
Sheen put his own resources at the service of the poor. In what equates today to approximately one hundred million dollars, all of the money he made from his telecasts — every cent — was given to the poor through Catholic missionaries around the world.
Archbishop Sheen was not a man of vague sympathies; he was a defender of the truth and a protector of the vulnerable. Where did his great love and sensitivity for the vulnerable come from? It came from a sixty-year unbroken promise he made to Our Lord to make a daily Holy Hour before Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. This was the remedy he saw for the world. Sheen said,
“Believe me, when we spend one hour a day in the presence of Our Eucharistic Lord and begin to pierce the bread in order to see the loving heart of Christ, then we’ll be prepared to go out into the world and to see the image of God behind every man!”
THE APOSTLE OF THE DAILY HOLY HOUR
He taught priests to live as priest-victims in union with the Lamb, and he summoned the laity to a daily Holy Hour — the surest school of charity, power, and courage. He was the Apostle of the Daily Eucharistic Holy Hour, convinced that the demons of the age are driven back before the Eucharistic Lord.
Above all, he embodied the message of Fatima: adoration, reparation, penance, the Rosary, and consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. His beatification would not be a sentimental trophy but a decisive act of spiritual warfare — holding up before the world the antidote to the darkness of our time: Eucharistic faith, Marian consecration, priestly renewal, and restoration of families.
The daily Holy Hour is connected to bringing a true peace in the world — a peace blossoming from holiness and conversion. Archbishop Sheen said:
“Thus can the world be saved. What a contribution could the 41,406 priests make to the peace of the world, if each spent an hour daily in the sanctuary! And how blessed for each would be the moment of death.”
Imagine now the cascading grace of a renewed Holy Hour movement, but as Sheen made them … daily. If just one million souls embraced a daily Holy Hour as a result of Sheen’s beatification, that would amount to 365 million Holy Hours in a single year — an invisible army of grace for the Church and the nation. Scale that to five million and we approach nearly two billion Holy Hours annually.
THE CHURCH’S CRISIS OF COURAGE AND THE CALL OF THE FAITHFUL
Sheen knew the cost of fidelity. His principled resistance to the misuse of ecclesial power — most famously in the conflict with Cardinal Spellman — brought him suffering, but he remained a loyal son of the Church. His Cause must not be stalled by the very dynamics he bore with patience.
Father Turek made clear in Rome that Rome is waiting on Peoria — not the other way around. The Dicastery for the Causes of Saints does not and will not advance a beatification without the cooperation of the local diocese. Therefore, the power to move this forward rests entirely in Peoria’s hands — not in the hands of the Attorney General of New York or obstructing bishops.
If the Diocese of Peoria courageously resists the baseless claims that have waylaid this cause, the scandal will be exposed for what it is: a contrived barrier built on fear and vitriol, not faith and the salvation of souls.
Sheen’s prophetic understanding of courage was not limited to the Church alone. During the darkest days of World War II, he drew deeply from the same well of courage exemplified by General Douglas MacArthur, whose leadership embodied what Sheen called “moral courage — the rarest form of bravery.”
MacArthur saw that wars are not won by strategy alone but by the moral fiber of those who fight them. He famously declared, “It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.” That insight, Sheen believed, applied even more profoundly to the spiritual war engulfing modern civilization.
As MacArthur understood the necessity of discipline and sacrifice to preserve a free nation, so too did Sheen understand the necessity of penance and faith to preserve a free Church.
As General MacArthur valiantly won the great battles of the Pacific through courage, discipline, and sacrifice, so too did Sheen wage his own campaigns against atheism, moral relativism, and spiritual decay. He saw that the Church’s enemies were not flesh and blood, but principalities and powers of darkness — and that her victories must come through prayer, penance, and truth proclaimed without fear.
Just as MacArthur returned to the Philippines to liberate the oppressed, Sheen called for the Church to return to the world with the Cross in her hand and the fire of the Holy Spirit in her heart, declaring that “the Church is not meant to be a museum for saints but a hospital for sinners.”
For the United States in particular, Blessed-elect Fulton Sheen would stand as the spiritual equivalent of General Douglas MacArthur — a general of God’s army whose weapon was truth, whose battlefield was the soul, and whose victory would be the salvation of nations.
Archbishop Sheen called General MacArthur “one of the greatest characters that America has ever produced.” Both General MacArthur and Archbishop Sheen shared the same secret to their success — a daily hour of prayer and meditation. For MacArthur, he said, “I could never fight or prepare for a battle unless I had a minimum of one hour a day in prayer.” For Sheen, it was his daily Holy Hour before Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, encouraging us,
“You will have to fight many battles, but do not worry because in the end you will win the war before the Blessed Sacrament.”
END THE NEGLECT
Fulton Sheen himself frequently lamented that the greatest disease afflicting the Church is neglect — a neglect that is crucifying Our Lord today. The past six years have been a painful example of that neglect and the cost of that neglect … lost souls.
How many souls could have been reached in that time? In his lifetime, Sheen reached thirty million souls every week in the pre-digital age. Today, in what Pope Benedict XVI called the “digital continent,” a newly beatified Fulton Sheen — spotlighted by the Church through global media coverage — could reach over a billion easily. His voice, his wit, his theology, and his prophetic moral clarity could set the world ablaze once more with faith and a return to reason.
The Church’s processes must never be hostage to secular optics or factional vetoes. In these extraordinary and uncertain times, Rome should once more lead decisively in the act of proclaiming its blesseds — while local celebrations follow.
The discernment has been made; the miracle approved; the Church should act with joyful boldness without the possibility of interference.
WHAT WE CAN AND MUST DO NOW FOR THE BEATIFICATION OF FULTON SHEEN
The following are concrete actions we can all take to bring a “brotherly shove” of our Blessed-elect over the goal line:
-
Sign the petition at fultonsheenmovement.com and increase the number of supporters for the immediate rescheduling of Sheen’s Beatification Mass.
As we witnessed back in 2019, one only needs six weeks to two months to plan out the event. In a time of war, we don’t care about ceremony. We care about obtaining the best spiritual generals for winning souls for Our Lord Jesus Christ. We want our “Blessed” Fulton Sheen.
The first delivery of signatures was to Rome. The next delivery will be to Peoria. -
Hold Fulton Sheen rallies everywhere, like the ones we did in 2023 and 2024 with Father Thomas Loya, pastor of Annunciation Byzantine Catholic Church in Homer Glen, Illinois — events that even Chicago Bears co-owner, Pat McCaskey, joined out of love for Sheen.
Contact us at team@fultonsheenmovement.com to explore rally opportunities in your area. -
Join our Fulton Sheen prayer family live every weekday at 11 a.m. Eastern for the Holy Rosary. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays we pray the Rosary in Latin. The other days are in English.
Our YouTube channel is @fultonsheeninstitute. -
Most important: Join the Daily Holy Hour Revolution and become elite spiritual warriors in the genuine spirit and legacy of Venerable Fulton Sheen.
We already have over 500 daily Holy Hour warriors signed up from all over the world.
Let every petition, every rally, every prayer be united under one clear purpose:
that 2026 — the 250th anniversary of the United States — will be the year the Church finally proclaims Blessed Fulton J. Sheen before Heaven and earth.
A FINAL APPEAL TO BISHOP LOUIS TYLKA AND THE FULTON SHEEN FOUNDATION
To the Diocese of Peoria and to the Archbishop Fulton Sheen Foundation, I renew this appeal: take courage. Lead the Church once again as you did in the days of Bishop Jenky, and proclaim the date for the Beatification Mass. Rome will rejoice, the faithful will rise in gratitude, and the world will see that the Church of Peoria has not lost the fire that Fulton Sheen himself kindled there.
The eyes of Heaven are upon you. The world is waiting. The saints are ready. Now is the hour to act.
In conclusion, I wish to sincerely thank everyone who has joined and supported this critical movement since it started in 2023. I thank all the clergy, bishops, journalists, radio hosts, podcasters, and lay faithful who courageously stood by the Movement’s side recognizing the most important reason for this Movement — to quote the man himself:
“There is nothing greater than the salvation of a soul.”
This is why I love Fulton Sheen and why the Movement exists. This is our mission, and the moment Fulton Sheen is proclaimed “Blessed,” a tsunami of grace will be unleashed bringing about the conversions of millions of souls. Millions. What greater cause is there than that?
As Archbishop Sheen himself warned, the survival of our nation and the renewal of the Church depend upon our return to God:
“A great burden is thrust upon men who call themselves religious. In this fatal hour, all of their energies should be spent recalling man to his spiritual destiny and summoning him to invoke the God Who made him… Let those who call themselves Catholics, or Protestants, or Jews recall that the function of their religion is to intensify the spiritual life of man and not to empty the vials of bitterness into hearts, stirring up one against another.”
America’s saint, Blessed-elect Fulton Sheen, teaches us that the Church’s saints are never made by living “out of an abundance of caution.” The great saints are always made out of an abundance of courage.
With gratitude for your love and courage to bring Blessed-elect Fulton Sheen to the world, I am,
Your Servant in Jesus and Mary,
Dr. Peter J. Howard, S.T.D.
Founder and President, Fulton Sheen Movement