Emphasis Preaching Journal

The late Bishop Fulton J. Sheen was so evidently born to be a teacher, that his career moved extremely fast. He was given many opportunities to teach, yet none of those early appointments seemed to go very smoothly. In his autobiography, (Treasure in Clay, Doubleday, NY, 1980), Sheen tells a story that took place in 1928, when the previous presidential election had raw overtones of anti-Catholic bigotry. He had been teaching in Europe, when the bishops of the Roman Catholic church decided that a School of Apologetics should be started at the American Catholic University.