{"id":1313,"date":"2019-07-07T05:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T05:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2025-09-29T03:05:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:05:54","slug":"pope-francis-moves-archbishop-fulton-sheen-one-step-closer-to-sainthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1313","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis moves Archbishop Fulton Sheen &#8220;one step closer to Sainthood.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to Jessica for sending me this. It&#8217;s also <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/07\/06\/pope-francis-moves-nyc-archbishop-sheen-one-step-closer-to-sainthood\/\">in the NY Post<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/world\/ny-archbishop-fulton-sheen-pope-francis-miracle-sainthood-20190706-pxaxldjapvfkjdeczepk2p7ula-story.html\">NY Daily News.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7219511\/Pope-moves-Americas-televangelist-closer-sainthood.html\">The late Archbishop Fulton Sheen, a charismatic figure of US Roman Catholicism in the 20th century and a pioneer in using media for religious purposes, is one step closer to sainthood. A Vatican statement on Saturday said the pope had approved a decree recognizing a miracle attributed to Sheen&#8217;s intercession, meaning he will be beatified. &#8230; The Vatican did not identify the miracle in the Sheen case, but the Catholic News Agency reported that it was the full recovery of a baby named James Fulton Engstrom, who was stillborn in Illinois in September 2010. The baby&#8217;s parents, Bonnie and Travis Engstrom of the Peoria-area town of Goodfield, prayed to Archbishop Sheen to heal their son after he showed no signs of life when medical professionals tried to revive him. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The stillborn baby had no heart beat for an hour. In the picture above &#8211; can you figure out what Church he is preaching in?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Jessica for sending me this. It&#8217;s also in the NY Post and NY Daily News. The late Archbishop Fulton Sheen, a charismatic figure of US Roman Catholicism in the 20th century and a pioneer in using media for religious purposes, is one step closer to sainthood. A Vatican statement on Saturday said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12502,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions\/12502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}