“Our Blessed Mother is our model for upholding the sanctity of all human life in every stage and circumstance. We entrust all our efforts to protect mothers and babies to her motherly care, which we greatly need at this time."

St. Mary’s Church in El Paso, where Fulton Sheen was baptized, will be renamed in his honor in December.

El obispo Louis Tylka, de la Diócesis de Peoria, pronunciará la homilía en la Misa que celebrará el arzobispo Ronald Hicks.

Bishop Louis Tylka of the Diocese of Peoria will offer the homily at a Mass celebrated by Archbishop Ronald Hicks.

At a Mass of Thanksgiving close to Blessed Sheen's tomb, the archbishop pointed to the newly beatified as a model of evangelization.