Why Everybody Watched Bishop Sheen ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Why Everybody Watched Bishop Sheen ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The irony of the prosperous decade of the 1950s is that the most popular person on the most visible proof of that prosperity—television—was a Catholic Bishop: “America’s Bishop,” Fulton J. Sheen, who rejected feel-good, dishwater Christianity and instead boldly proclaimed the truth to his audience, 70% of whom were non-Catholic. Happiness, says the wicked Ambrose Bierce, is an “agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another…