The 50K Catholics Who Went To See America's Next Saint

Witnessing Beatification An Answer to My Prayers

My wife and I were blessed to join an estimated 50,000 pilgrims at The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis to witness the beatification of Archbishop Fulton Sheen.

Catholics flock to 'Rome of the Midwest'

Tens of thousands of Catholics from around the world descended on St. Louis on Thursday, packing The Dome at America's Center for a ceremony to elevate a Midwesterner one step shy of sainthood.

The 50K Catholics Who Went To See America's Next Saint

Decades after his death, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen still commands an audience. Madeleine Long reports from his beatification in St. Louis.

Meet the 50,000 Catholics Who Went to See America’s Next Saint

ST. LOUIS, Missouri — On Wednesday night, more than 600 people flooded into the Old Cathedral on the banks of the Mississippi River. There were Gen-Z girls, some in sweatpants, some in lace veils; there were newlyweds standing next to young seminarians. Before long every pew had been filled, and worshippers took to kneeling in the aisles, then the back of the nave, then they stood packed in the vestibule before spilling out the doors entirely.Th…