Fulton J Sheen effect on the war participants: in 1940-41 Bp. Fulton Sheen recorded weekly broadcasts for the Natl Council Catholic Men later published by them in booklet War & Guilt. What impact did this have on high & lower level war participants?

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The book has been republished by TAN publishers in 2023, and excoriates all sides for the moral rot and atheistic attitudes that created the circumstances for the war.

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Outside the US - none. Inside the US, it might have had some effect, but after Pearl Harbor - none.

He referred to Hitler as an example of the workings of the “Anti-Christ”. He wrote a prayer book for soldiers during the war, from my (brief) readings, he saw the war as a war against godlessness - he preached that even a soldier must not hate his enemy (which probably didn’t survive seeing the first friendly casualty.)

BTW, the “war and guilt” book is downloadable from

https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A36868/pages