Did Fulton Sheen fake his doctorate?
A media pioneer: Archbishop Fulton Sheen was the US’s greatest Catholic apologist
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Behind his biographer’s allegation that the archbishop fudged his résumé lies a complex world of scholarship and patronage, and the Wild West of 1920s Catholic academia.
ARCHBISHOP Fulton J. Sheen will be beatified in the cathedral at St Louis, Missouri in the United States of America on 24 September. Before he was a bishop and a celebrated pioneer of media evangelisation, this priest-professor taught theology and then philosophy at The Catholic University of America in Washington DC. Yet his biographer has charged that Sheen invented the doctorate in theology on his résumé. Mispresenting one’s credentials is a serious offence in academia.
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