Joy, fidelity, humility – Peoria’s bishop on Fulton Sheen’s message to America
“His relatability, his humor, the way in which he just entered people’s lives was such a great joy for him…”
When Bishop Louis Tylka was appointed to lead the Diocese of Peoria, he didn’t know much about Archbishop Fulton Sheen.
Born in 1970, he was too young to remember Sheen’s iconic television shows, which went off the air in the late 1960s. But leading the home diocese of “America’s bishop,” Tylka quickly got to know Sheen— and the great devotion of many Am…