Fulton Sheen Against the Ideologues

Most people remember Ven. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen for his uplifting television program Life Is Worth Living, but Sheen was much more than a televangelist. He spent much of his academic life and religious ministry exposing political ideologies--fascism, Nazism, and communism--as inferior substitutes for a religious foundation for public life. Given the political circumstances, Sheen's work on this area is newly relevant. This lecture explores Sheen's critique of ideology and how he argued for a religious foundation rooted in the rights of conscience and constitutional republicanism.