Sometimes Even the Brightest Sheen Can Lose Its Mettle: Teilhard’s Surprising Fan

Archbishop Fulton Sheen was one of America’s most admirable prelates. But his postconciliar life should give us pause before shouting “Santo subito!”

When I attended the Roman Forum in Exile a couple of summers ago, held at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington, Long Island, I was struck by a giant display book kept in a glass case near the entrance to the chapel. Upon closer inspection, it proved to be the documentation for the canonization process of Archbishop Fulton Sheen. And curiously, i…