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‘Lots of moving parts’ - The planning of Fulton Sheen’s beatification Mass

Bishop Louis Tylka talks logistics, funding, and 'Sheen Week'

Michelle La Rosa
Mar 26, 2026
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The Vatican announced Wednesday that Archbishop Fulton Sheen will be beatified on Sept. 24, nearly seven years after the archbishop’s originally scheduled beatification was delayed.

Sheen’s canonization cause has been promoted by the Diocese of Peoria, where the late archbishop first served as a priest, and where his body is buried.

But, Bishop Louis Tylk…

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