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This podcast features the works of the Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen who for over 50 years captivated audiences on both radio and television. ”The Holy Rosary Program” is an award winning podcast that Al Smith has hosted for over 15 years and is considered by many as a spiritual oasis for Catholics and Protestants alike.
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7 hours ago
Bishop Sheen Speaks on How Mothers are Made.
7 hours ago
7 hours ago
Please enjoy these reflection given by Bishop Sheen.
“HOW MOTHERS ARE MADE AND MARY, MOTHER & SPOUSE"
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www.fultonsheen.com
www.bishopsheen.com
For more information about the life and legacy of The Venerable Servant of God, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen please visit:
www.bishopsheentoday.com
www.archbishopsheencause.org
God Love You.
Al Smith
Host and Producer
Your Life is Worth Living
FM 98.5 (CKWR) and
Radio Maria Canada
email: bishopfultonjsheen@gmail.com
Catalog of shows available on demand through Radio Maria please visit https://eng.radiomaria.ca/podcasts/bsp/

9 hours ago
9 hours ago
Please enjoy these two reflections given by Bishop Sheen.
1) “Wasting Your Life”
2) “The Women He Loves”
May I encourage you to support our sponsors who have made these quality recordings available for your listening pleasure.
www.fultonsheen.com
www.bishopsheen.com
For more information about the life and legacy of The Venerable Servant of God, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen please visit:
www.bishopsheentoday.com
www.archbishopsheencause.org
God Love You.
Al Smith
Host and Producer
Your Life is Worth Living
FM 98.5 (CKWR) and
Radio Maria Canada
email: bishopfultonjsheen@gmail.com
Catalog of shows available on demand through Radio Maria please visit eng.radiomaria.ca/podcasts/bsp/

2 days ago
2 days ago
Please enjoy these two reflections given by Bishop Sheen.
1) “Happiness is a Rainbow.”
2) “Christian Humour.”
May I encourage you to support our sponsors who have made these quality recordings available for your listening pleasure.
www.fultonsheen.com
www.bishopsheen.com
For more information about the life and legacy of The Venerable Servant of God, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen please visit:
www.bishopsheentoday.com
www.archbishopsheencause.org
God Love You.
Al Smith
Host and Producer
Your Life is Worth Living
FM 98.5 (CKWR) and
Radio Maria Canada
email: bishopfultonjsheen@gmail.com
Catalog of shows available on demand through Radio Maria please visit https://eng.radiomaria.ca/podcasts/bsp/

3 days ago
3 days ago
Please enjoy these reflection given by Bishop Sheen.
“What Holds us Together” and
“The Holy Spirit”.
May I encourage you to support our sponsors who have made these quality recordings available for your listening pleasure.
www.fultonsheen.com
www.bishopsheen.com
For more information about the life and legacy of The Venerable Servant of God, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen please visit:
www.bishopsheentoday.com
www.archbishopsheencause.org
God Love You.
Al Smith
Host and Producer
Your Life is Worth Living
FM 98.5 (CKWR) and
Radio Maria Canada
email: bishopfultonjsheen@gmail.com
Catalog of shows available on demand through Radio Maria please visit https://eng.radiomaria.ca/podcasts/bsp/
#BishopSheen
#FultonJSheen

4 days ago
4 days ago
On this broadcast Patricia Hedy-Murray interviews Al Smith about the book he compiled and edited called "The Cries of Jesus from the Cross - A Sheen Anthology". Together they spend an hour discussing the background information of what went into creating this book along with providing some insights into Archbishop Sheen's radio addresses. For the previous seven weeks Patricia went through all seven chapters of the book and unpackaged the meaning behind the seven last words Our Lord spoke from the Cross through the writings of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. In this interview Al Smith gives the audience a understanding of how and why Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen spoke for 58 consecutive years about the Lord's Passion and His seven last words.

5 days ago
5 days ago
Al Smith spends time with Brenda from Mater Dei Radio talking about his latest Sheen anthology published by Sophia Institute Press called "Archbishop Sheen's Book of Sacraments."
Here is the link to purchase the book - https://www.sophiainstitute.com/products/item/archbishop-sheens-book-of-sacraments
God Love You.
For more information about this recording and Mater Dei Radio please visit - https://materdeiradio.com/captivate-podcast/september-3-2021-morning-blend-podcast/

6 days ago
6 days ago
Al Smith is the editor of five best-selling books featuring the writings of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. He has served the Church for fifteen years as a Catholic evangelist, radio host, writer, Internet broadcaster, and retreat director. Al's work as the director of the Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Mission Society of Canada and board member of the Archbishop Fulton John Sheen Foundation in Peoria, Illinois, which promotes the cause of Fulton J. Sheen's canonization process has provided Al with a wealth of knowledge pertaining to the works of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.
During an episode of the Catholic Drive Time Show on the Guadalupe Radio Network, Al Smith discusses with Joe McClane, Rudy Carlos and Adrian Fonseca some of the content found in this book written by Fulton Sheen in 1941 titled 'A Declaration of Dependence'. They also discuss his latest anthology titled 'War and Peace' which contains five of Sheen's books from the 1940's.
The book 'A Declaration of Dependence' reveals the shocking truth you need to know in a world riddled by irrationality, emotionalism, and violence. Religion is under attack, whether from totalitarian governments or modern education. Our tacit submission to politics, “freedom,” and science has made us slaves to a diabolical New Atheism and fear.
With his prescient wit, wisdom, and fervor, Archbishop Fulton Sheen provides clarity amid propagandist lies and pagan societies united in purpose to destroy. He reminds us why we must fear what kills the soul more than what kills the body. He exposes the false prophets and philosophies at work in the world and the many “believers” who no longer worship or act in accordance with their beliefs.
Archbishop Sheen masterfully decries the divisions and hatreds in America, explaining how we have turned from God and are on the precipice, that there is “too much tolerance of evil and not enough intolerance of injustice.” The chastisements the world is facing, he declares, are a consequence of its sins; they are the result of our abandonment of God, our idolatry; and man’s attempts to replace God serve only to show that the world is devoid of goodness without His presence. By declaring ourselves independent of God, we have brought down His wrath and made ourselves slaves to the world, the flesh, and the devil. Archbishop Sheen invites us to examine our consciences to see how we have, in fact, caused the wars in the world.
By reading this book you will see how “isms” control people where the seeds have been planted for them to be controlled. You will learn how, throughout history, God punishes to destroy evil and, at the same time, to heal His sons from their sins. In addition, you will absorb the future saint’s teachings on:
The presence of the Antichrist in history
The cause of war — whether or not it is just — and where its greatest tragedy lies
How to truly fight for peace, justice, and unity in our country and among nations
The standard to which all Christians should hold themselves Why the Church is opposed to extreme militarism and pacifism
Why those without conscience persecute those with conscience Best of all, Archbishop Sheen explains how God’s wrath is not capricious but is a consequence of our actions, how He is good and loving and will not let us drown in our sins, and how the key to our restoration — repentance — is readily in our grasp.
In the book War and Peace, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen recognized that modern atheism was a new type of Messianism threatening to beguile and conquer humanity.
Sheen stressed the use of reason as the unparalleled countermeasure to deceptive communism. The first three books contained in this anthology are a collection of Sheen’s classic Catholic Hour radio addresses that were heard by millions of listeners in the 1930s and 1940s. Here, in a single compilation, are Bishop Sheen’s most clearly delineated investigations into the underlying causes of communism — every bit as relevant today as when he spoke them — along with an entirely sound and hopeful program for defeating it.
In the fourth book of this anthology, The Philosophies of War, Sheen addresses the confusion felt by most people who were dissatisfied with the ephemeral and superficial commentaries about World War II. Like a master surgeon, Sheen applies the sharp scalpel of his crystal-clear logic to lay open the sources of the world’s infection. The fifth book, Seven Pillars of Peace, presents the principles upon which Sheen believes the foundations for a just and lasting peace must be built.
By making these five powerful resources your own, you’ll have in one volume the means to thrive spiritually in our current seemingly desperate time. Drawing from biblical, cultural, and contemporary examples, Sheen will show you:
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The spirit of the Antichrist, immoral leaders, education, and societies
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How personal sin is sickening our culture — and the cure for this “pandemic”
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The proper understanding of and instinctive human need for authentic freedom, justice, and love
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The need to unite for personal rights, including freedom of conscience
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Why it is crucial to be intolerant of evil and embrace a divine solution
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How America must choose to repent in order to overcome our present crisis
Most notably, Archbishop Sheen proclaims the hope of Christ’s Cross and the immeasurable power of His resurrected love. He exhorts us to carry our individual fragments of the beam. It is always darkest before the dawn, Sheen teaches. Times of discouragement are moments when great spiritual transformations can occur. If we return to God and do penance, we will attain interior peace. The future of America’s freedom and restoration as a constitutional republic depend on our decision — now — to obediently trust in God.
To order these books, please visit the Sophia Institute Press website at https://www.sophiainstitute.com/author/archbishop-fulton-j-sheen and remember to use the promo code of 'SHEEN25" to receive a 25% discount when you buy two books or more.
For more information about the life and works of the Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, please visit - https://www.bishopsheentoday.com
God Love You.
#DeclarationOfDependence #FultonJSheen #declarationofindependence

6 days ago
6 days ago
Fr. Ron Lengwin and his guest Al Smith talk about Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen's 1941 book titled 'A Declaration of Dependence' that has been republished by Sophia Institute Press and is available at https://www.sophiainstitute.com/products/item/a-declaration-of-dependence
This book reveals the shocking truth you need to know in a world riddled by irrationality, emotionalism, and violence. Religion is under attack, whether from totalitarian governments or modern education. Our tacit submission to politics, “freedom,” and science has made us slaves to a diabolical New Atheism and fear.
With his prescient wit, wisdom, and fervor, Archbishop Fulton Sheen provides clarity amid propagandist lies and pagan societies united in purpose to destroy. He reminds us why we must fear what kills the soul more than what kills the body. He exposes the false prophets and philosophies at work in the world and the many “believers” who no longer worship or act in accordance with their beliefs.
Archbishop Sheen masterfully decries the divisions and hatreds in America, explaining how we have turned from God and are on the precipice, that there is “too much tolerance of evil and not enough intolerance of injustice.” The chastisements the world is facing, he declares, are a consequence of its sins; they are the result of our abandonment of God, our idolatry; and man’s attempts to replace God serve only to show that the world is devoid of goodness without His presence.
By declaring ourselves independent of God, we have brought down His wrath and made ourselves slaves to the world, the flesh, and the devil. Archbishop Sheen invites us to examine our consciences to see how we have, in fact, caused the wars in the world.
By reading this book you will see how “isms” control people where the seeds have been planted for them to be controlled. You will learn how, throughout history, God punishes to destroy evil and, at the same time, to heal His sons from their sins. In addition, you will absorb the future saint’s teachings on:
-
The presence of the Antichrist in history
-
The cause of war — whether or not it is just — and where its greatest tragedy lies
-
How to truly fight for peace, justice, and unity in our country and among nations
-
The standard to which all Christians should hold themselves
-
Why the Church is opposed to extreme militarism and pacifism
-
Why those without conscience persecute those with conscience
Best of all, Archbishop Sheen explains how God’s wrath is not capricious but is a consequence of our actions, how He is good and loving and will not let us drown in our sins, and how the key to our restoration — repentance — is readily in our grasp.
For more information about the life and legacy of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, please visit - https://www.bishopsheentoday.com

7 days ago
7 days ago
Al Smith speaks with Fr. Mitch Pacwa, SJ on EWTN Live about the life and legacy of the Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. They discuss Sheen's writing on the Pascal Mysteries. They also speak to the contents of the book of Archbishop Sheen's writings entitled: The Cries of Jesus from the Cross. It is available through the EWTN religious catalogue at: https://www.ewtnreligiouscatalogue.com/Home+Page/BOOKS/Jesus/THE+CRIES+OF+JESUS+FROM+THE+CROSS.axd The video of this program can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_u2_nZxtew&t=1438s

Wednesday Jul 02, 2025
Wednesday Jul 02, 2025
Fr. Ron Lengwin interviews Al Smith about the book he edited "Lord Teach us to Pray - A Fulton Sheen Anthology.Al Smith who is the Compiler and Editor of the book - "Lord Teach us to Pray - An Anthology" published by Sophia Institute Press takes time to share some of the insights Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen wrote on the topic of prayer.
Fr. Ron discusses with Al the contents of the book and a little bit of background information about the Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. Praying the Our Father, the Mass, the Holy Hour, the Stations of the Cross and much more will be the topics of discussion during their interview.
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen wrote a great deal about prayer and the importance of developing the "Holy Habit of Prayer". Over the years he produced a number of small prayer books that helped hundreds of thousands of souls. Many of these are included in this anthology.
The book is dedicated to St. Joseph in honour of his role in teaching Our Blessed Lord how to pray during his life. St. Joseph was also given the privilege of adoring the Lord, first at Bethlehem and then for many years at Nazareth. It is my hope that through his intercession, Good St. Joseph will help many souls learn how to pray and adore the Lord well. Speak Lord your servant is Listening. (1 Samuel 3:10) Lord Teach us to Pray. (Luke 11:1)
To purchase the book visit - https://www.sophiainstitute.com/products/item/lord-teach-us-to-pray
God Love You.
Al Smith
https://www.bishopsheentoday.com/