Almost every Catholic senior can recount stories of huddling with family members around the radio to listen to Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen on NBC Radio’s “Catholic Hour.” Many others can recall his top-rated television program, “Life is Worth Living,” viewed by thirty million people each week of all faiths. Still today his voice resonates to Catholics, young and old, through the treasure of audio and video recordings.

He did so much — and so much good — in his 84 years. In addition to his priestly duties and being America’s first radio and television evangelist, he was a philosophy and theology professor, a newspaper columnist, a magazine editor, a patient instructor of countless converts, an intrepid foe of communism, a popular retreat and mission preacher, the author of 67 books, for 16 years the National Director of the Society of the Propagation of the Faith, and finally bishop of Rochester, NY...