'Moving Moment': Peoria Bishop Presents Fulton Sheen Relic to the Pope

'Moving moment': Peoria bishop presents Fulton Sheen relic to the pope

Peoria bishop presents Fulton Sheen relic to Pope Leo

Peoria Bishop Louis Tylka presented a relic of Blessed Fulton Sheen to Pope Leo XIV.

Pope Leo receives a relic of Blessed Fulton Sheen from Peoria’s bishop

Bishop Louis Tylka of Peoria, Illinois, presented Pope Leo XIV with a relic of the recently beatified Blessed Fulton Sheen during a private audience at the Vatican Oct. 5.

Peoria Diocese’s Tylka meets with Pope Leo to present case for Sheen canonization

Peoria Catholic Diocese Bishop Louis Tylka jetted to Rome, Italy, Friday, Oct. 2, to make the final case for the canonization — or sainthood — of the late Archbishop (now the “Blessed”) Fulton Sheen, meeting with Pope Leo at the Vatican on the following Monday and presenting the pontiff with a relic of the American...

Pope Leo receives a relic of Blessed Fulton Sheen from Peoria's bishop

Bishop Louis Tylka of Peoria presented Pope Leo with a relic of Blessed Fulton Sheen during a private meeting at the Vatican Oct. 5. The pope also held two other private audiences with Archbishop Thomas Gerard Wenski of Miami and Archbishop Paul Coakley with a delegation of USCCB leadership.