ROME, ITALY - The late Bishop Fulton John Sheen was moved by Pope Benedict XVI another step closer towards sainthood Thursday at the Vatican. Bishop Sheen, a popular American religious leader that spoke coast to coast on television and radio in the 50s and 60s, addressing contemporary social issues, was acknowledged for his "heroic virtues."
Bishop Sheen was born in El Paso Illinois in 1895 and lived his childhood years 30 miles east of Peoria, IL before becoming the bishop of Rochester New York, where he died in 1979.
Sheen addressed the perils of Communism in this television segment:
