Meet the Emmy Award-winning American priest who converted celebrities and communists
SAN FRANCISCO – While the life of Venerable Fulton Sheen could fill many volumes, it was the souls he won for God that fills the new book by Cheryl Hughes, ARCHBISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN: CONVERT MAKER (Ignatius Press).
Hughes holds a Ph.D. in historical theology from Durham University in England. Her books include Katharine Drexel: The Riches-to-Rags Story of an American Catholic Saint (2014) and Crossing Boundaries and Confounding Identity: Chinese Women in Literature, Art, and Film (2023). She and her husband live in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Through Sheen’s magnetic personality, wit and compassion, many thousands of people likely entered the Church from all walks of life. ARCHBISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN: CONVERT MAKER reveals the conversion stories of jazz legend Ada “Bricktop” Smith, journalist Heywood Broun, Communist activist Louis Budenz, U.S. Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce, spy Elizabeth Bentley, composer Fritz Kreisler, Communist Bella Dodd and Hollywood starlet Virginia Mayo. | More
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