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Broken into five parts, the book explores the early Life of Christ, his te.
It is unique in its readability, which is perhaps to unsurprising from a theologian with decades of experience bringing religion to the masses on radio and television.
Life of Christ is considered a classic work of Christian faith.
He wrote 73 books during his life, including The Life of Christ in 1958.
Although he was now one of the most recognized Catholics in the country, Sheen still made time to write.
He was also featured on the cover of Time magazine that year.
In response, he said, I feel it is time I pay tribute to my four writers-Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Sheen won an Emmy for Most Outstanding Television Personality in 1952.
The program ran for the next five years and reached an estimated 30 million weekly viewers.
The following year, he was consecrated a bishop and began the well-known television series, Life is Worth Living.
By 1950, Sheen had resigned his teaching position at Catholic University of America and became director of the Society for the Propagation of Faith, where he raised millions of dollars to support Catholic missionary work.
He appealed to the audience through his extensive knowledge of Catholicism and how the teaching of Christ applied to the moral and societal questions of modern life.
He continued the broadcast for the next 20 years, and the show eventually reached a weekly audience of four million listeners.
In 1930, then-Monsignor Sheen was added as a weekly speaker on the NBC radio broadcast The Catholic Hour on Sunday nights.
Thomas Aquinas in 1927.
His speaking talents were noted, and he was chosen to preach at the annual University Mass honoring St.
In 1925, he began teaching philosophy and theology at Catholic University.
Ordained in 1919, he went on to study at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC and the Pontificium Collegium Internationale Angelicum in Rome, where he received his Sacred Theology Doctorate.
Sheen was born in El Paso, Illinois, in 1895.
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But while Sheen himself was a scholar and academic, his recounting is both readable and accessible to the layperson.
This book explores the foretelling of Christ\'s birth, his life, temptations, death, and resurrection.
One of his best-known works is The Life of Christ, written in 1958.
Sheen-bishop, scholar, professor, radio and television personality, and writer-spent his Life sharing the Word of God with millions of Christians across the world.
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