Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria is inviting the faithful to pray a novena beginning December 12 to "petition God unceasingly" that Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s sainthood cause may move forward.
Sheen, a beloved American evangelist and television personality who died in 1979, was set to be beatified on December 21 in Peoria, but the Holy See announced on December 2 that the beatification was to be postponed.
“I know how deeply saddened we all are about the postponement of the beatification of Fulton Sheen,” said Bishop Jenky said in a video message on December 9.
