2. The Sacrament of Confirmation
3. The Sacrament of the Eucharist
5. The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick
6. The Sacrament of Holy Orders
as described by Fulton J. SHEEN
as photographed by Yousuf KARSH
Copyright 1962 by Hawthorn Books, Inc., 70 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY.
The Scripture translations throughout are from The Holy Bible, translated by Ronald Knox, copyright 1944, 1948, 1950 by Sheed and Ward, Inc., New York.
Nihil Obstat: William F. Hogan, S.T.D., Censor Librorum
Imprimatur: James A. Hughes, J.C.D., LL.D., P.A., Vicar General, Archdiocese of Newark
October 22, 1962
ABOUT THIS BOOK AND THE MEN WHO MADE IT
FULTON JOHN SHEEN was born May 8, 1895, at El Paso, Illinois, one of four sons of Newton Morris and Delia (Fulton) Sheen. He was baptized Peter and took the name John at confirmation, later adopting his mother's maiden name. His father was a farmer, but the family later moved to Peoria, Illinois, where he attended St. Mary's School and Spalding Institute, from which he was graduated in 1913. He received his A.B. and M.A. degrees from St. Viator College, Bourbonnais, Illinois, where he first tasted the pleasures of speaking and writing as a member of the college debating team and newspaper staff. He completed his theological studies at St. Paul's Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota, and was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Peoria, September 20, 1919. A year later he obtained the degrees Bachelor of Sacred Theology and Bachelor of Canon Law from the Catholic University of America, and then went to the University of Louvain, Belgium, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1923. He also attended the Sorbonne in Paris and the Collegio Angelico in Rome. In 1924, he received his Doctorate of Sacred Theology in Rome and, a year later, while teaching dogmatic theology at St. Edmund's College, Ware, England, he was made an Agrege en Philosophie by Louvain and awarded that university's Cardinal Mercier International Philosophy Award. Included among his honorary degrees are: LL.D., Litt.D., and L.H.D. On his return to the United States, he served as a curate at St. Patrick's Church in Peoria; joined the faculty of the Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C., in 1926 as a philosophy of religion instructor, and was later promoted to a full professorship. In June, 1934, he was appointed Papal Chamberlain and was elevated the following year to Domestic Prelate. He was consecrated Bishop on June 11, 1951, which was a year after he became National Director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. He has been heard by millions of people in the United States, Canada, and England through the media of radio and television. A prolific writer, he is author of two syndicated columns: "God Love You" for the Catholic Press, and "Bishop Sheen Speaks," for the secular press, and is editor of two magazines: "World-mission," a quarterly review, and "Mission," a bimonthly. The popularity of his radio and television programs can be judged from the fact that his daily mail, as a result of these programs, has reached as much as ten thousand letters in a single day--about one-third of them from non-Catholics. The largest single delivery of mail was thirty thousand letters. He conducted the first religious service ever telecast, served as narrator for a "March of Time" film, and has had his sermons issued in record album form. As well as serving in such organizations as the Catholic Literary Guild and the American Catholic Philosophical Society, he is an active member of the Mediaeval Academy and the American Geographical Association. The long list of his books started with publication of "God and Intelligence in Modern Philosophy" (Longmans, Green, 1925). This was followed by "Religion Without God" (Longmans, Green, 1928), "The Life of All Living" (Century, 1930) "Old Errors and New Labels" (Century, 1931), "Moods and Truths" (Century 1932), "The Way of the Cross" (Appleton-Century, 1934), "Seven Last Words" (Appleton-Century, 1933), "The Eternal Galilean" (Appleton-Century, 1934), "The Philosophy of Science" (Bruce, 1934), "The Mystical Body of Christ" (Sheed and Ward, 1935), "Calvary and the Mass" (Kenedy, 1936), "The Moral Universe" (Bruce, 1936), "The Cross and the Beatitudes" (Kenedy, 1937), "The Cross and the Crisis" (Bruce, 1938), "Liberty, Equality and Fraternity" (Macmillan 1938), "The Rainbow of Sorrow" (Kenedy, 1938), "Victory Over Vice" (Kenedy, 1939), "Freedom Under God" (Bruce, 1940), "Whence Come Wars" (Sheed and Ward, 1940), "The Seven Virtues" (Kenedy, 1940), "For God and Country" (Kenedy, 1941), "A Declaration of Dependence" (Bruce, 1941), "God and War" (Kenedy, 1942), "The Divine Verdict" (Kenedy, 1943), "The Armor of God" (Kenedy, 1943), "Philosophies at War" (Scribner's, 1943), "Seven Words to the Cross" (Kenedy, 1944), "Seven Pillars of Peace" (Scribner's, 1944), "Love One Another" (Kenedy, 1944), "Seven Words of Jesus and Mary" (Kenedy, 1945), "Preface to Religion" (Kenedy, 1946), "Characters of the Passion" (Kenedy, 1946), "Jesus, Son of Mary" (McMullen, 1947), "Communism and the Conscience of the West" (Bobbs, Merrill, 1948), "Philosophy of Religion" (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1948), "Peace of Soul" (McGraw-Hill, 1949), "Lift Up Your Heart" (McGraw-Hill, 1950), "Three to Get Married" (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1951), "The World's First Love" (McGraw-Hill, 1952), "Life Is Worth Living, First Series" (McGraw-Hill, 1953), "Life Is Worth Living, Second Series" (McGraw-Hill, 1954), "The Life of Christ" (McGraw-Hill, 1954), "The Way to Happiness" (Garden City, 1954), "Life Is Worth Living, Third Series" (McGraw-Hill, 1955), "The Way to Inner Peace" (Garden City 1955), "God Love You" (Garden City, 1955), "Thinking Life Through" (Garden City, 1955), "The True Meaning of Christmas" (McGraw-Hill, 1955), "Life Is Worth Living, Fourth Series" (McGraw-Hill, 1956), "Thoughts for Daily Living" (Garden City, 1956), "Life Is Worth Living, Fifth Series" (McGraw-Hill, 1957), "This Is the Mass" (Hawthorn, 1958), "This Is Rome" (Hawthorn, 1960), "Go to Heaven" (McGraw-Hill, 1960), "This Is The Holy Land" (Hawthorn, 1961), and "The Fulton J. Sheen Sunday Missal" (Hawthorn, 1962). He is Auxiliary Bishop of New York.
YOUSUF KARSH was born on December 23, 1908, at Mardin, Armenia. He came to Canada at the age of fifteen during the Turkish massacres. Son of an import-export entrepreneur and grandson of an engraver, he went to stay with an uncle, A. G. Nakash, who owned a photography studio in Sherbrooke, Quebec. He took an interest in the art of the camera and was sent by his uncle to Boston, Massachusetts, to study. After several years in the United States, he opened his own studio in Canada's capital where, within a few years, he was photographing the cream of society and leaders of government. When war broke out in 1939, Ottawa became a center of Allied war activity, and "Karsh of Ottawa" became a familiar signature on the portraits of some of the world's greatest leaders. In 1941, his famous portrait of Winston Churchill rocketed him to fame as the world's greatest portrait photographer. That photograph, along with seventy-four others which were taken in all parts of the world in the four years that followed, went into making his first book, "Faces of Destiny" (Ziff-Davis, 1946). He followed this with "This Is the Mass" (Hawthorn, 1958), "Portraits of Greatness" (Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1959), "This Is Rome" (Hawthorn, 1960), "This Is The Holy Land" (Hawthorn, 1961), and the publication of his memoirs in a work entitled "In Search of Greatness" (Knopf, 1962). Still a world traveler, he keeps cameras and equipment at studios in London, Paris, and New York, as well as in Ottawa. He usually carries a set of camera equipment that weighs at least 250 pounds. He always uses a white camera, finding that the traditional black is depressing, and his focusing cloth varies in color according to his own mood--though it is most often of red velvet with a gold satin lining. Groups of his portraits form part of the permanent collections of such museums as the Brooklyn Museum Department of Photography and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City; Eastman House, Rochester, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; and the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. In acknowledgment of his contribution to Canadian art and culture, he received one of the first Canadian Citizenship Certificates in January, 1947, when Parliament passed a law creating Canadian citizenship.
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