His Excellency, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, born at 25 West Front Street,
El Paso, Illinois, May 8, 1895. "This picture was taken in 1971."
of Louvain, Belgium, and the University of Rome. He was awarded the degree
of Agrege en Philosophie at Louvain, perhaps the one of all his degrees
that he prizes the most highly. In 1926 he returned to the Catholic University
of America at Washington, D. C. where he became professor of philosophy.
In England, Sheen taught for a time at St. Edmund's College; he acted
as an assistant to the pastor of St. Patrick's in Soho; he preach-
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