The voice belonged to His Excellency the Most Reverend Fulton J. Sheen, auxiliary Bishop of New York, perhaps the most famous preacher in the U.S., certainly America’s best-known Roman Catholic ...

So that’s why I chose Sheen. Martin said he decided on his last name because he "was fascinated" with Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, who was considered among the first televangelists in the 1950s.

Rochester’s Bishop Fulton J. Sheen was one much talked-about candidate; so was Detroit’s Archbishop John Dearden, head of the national conference of U.S. bishops. Last week Pope Paul ...