Peoria Diocese Launches Special Appeal For Sheen Beatification

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From CNA:

Venerable Fulton Sheen.Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria is inviting the faithful to pray a novena beginning Dec. 12 to “petition God unceasingly” that Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s sainthood cause may move forward.

Sheen, a beloved American evangelist and television personality who died in 1979, was set to be beatified Dec. 21 in Peoria, but the Holy See announced Dec. 2 that the beatification was to be postponed. “I know how deeply saddened we all are about the postponement of the beatification of Fulton Sheen,” said Bishop Jenky said in a video message Dec. 9.