"Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather, it is 'timing', it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles, and in the right way."
Fulton John Sheen was an American Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Rochester from 1966 to 1969. He was known for his preaching, especially on television and radio.
Born: 8 May 1895, El Paso, Illinois, United States
Died: 9 December 1979 (age 84 years), Upper East Side, New York, United States
Five facts about Fulton John Sheen.
Born in 1895 in Illinois, Fulton J. Sheen became one of the most famous Catholic bishops of the 20th century. Not famous in the influencer sense. Famous because people listened when he spoke.
He hosted the television programme Life Is Worth Living in the 1950s, pulling in tens of millions of viewers a week. He won an Emmy. A bishop beating Hollywood at its own game still stings, even now.
He held doctorates from the Catholic University of America and the University of Louvain in Belgium. In other words, he was intellectually armed, not just spiritually enthusiastic.
Sheen was a fierce critic of communism and moral relativism, arguing that societies collapse when they abandon objective truth. This was before it became fashionable to pretend truth is a personal hobby.
He was known for spending a full holy hour in prayer every day, without fail, even while managing media fame and Church responsibilities. Discipline before dopamine. A concept many could rediscover.
