ARCHBISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN: [Satan] will set up a counterchurch which will be the ape of the [Catholic] church . . . . It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine conten

Tomorrow, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen will be beatified in St. Louis. Most Rev. Louis Tylka, Bishop of Peoria, shares how Sheen brought the Gospel to the nation through radio and television and why his voice of clarity and charity still matters today. He saw the whole world as his… pic.twitter.com/AC1M3Z9ftn

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[Satan] will set up a counterchurch which will be the ape of the [Catholic] church . . . .  It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content.  --Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.  Source: Fulton J. Sheen, Communism and the Conscience of the West (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merril Company, 1948), pp. 22-25.