The ‘great enigma’ of modern media’s patron, Blessed Fulton Sheen

Archbishop Fulton Sheen, who was beatified on Thursday in St. Louis, is considered by almost everybody a “great enigma.” These were the words of William F. Buckley Jr. on Jan. 6, 1970.

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction…”