Now, what does pain do to make a man great? Well, pain is a purifier. We get learning out of books, but we get wisdom from suffering. Never go to consult a man who hasn’t suffered in some way. Pain is like the tightening of the strings of a violin. It produces...
Fulton John Sheen was born in El Paso, Illinois, in 1895. In high school, he won a three-year university scholarship, but he turned it down to pursue a vocation to the priesthood. He attended St. Viator College Seminary in Illinois and St. Paul Seminary in Minnesota....
The Divine Romance: Love’s Overflow In this address delivered on March 23, 1930 Rev. Fulton J. Sheen explains how God’s love overflowed and why He created the world. “Away back in the agelessness of eternity, in that day that had neither beginning...
Why Does God Not Stop War, Bishop Fulton J Sheen This is an excerpt from a homily given by Bishop Fulton Sheen on March 3, 1942 (Note 1). The war in question was WW II. The war started on September 1, 1939. The US entered the war on December 8, 1941 following the...