The Role Of Communism In W. Sheen's Life

There was a term that could be found in some of Sheen’s talks on communism. Many can consider that his ideas were at time crusade like in his demeanor on the subject. In a section of an episode on his show, he used several terms to show a crusade like mentality against communism. He sees the people in the Soviet Union in some sort of peril. Sheen has this mentality against the Soviets in which the ones in charge are the problem and the people need to be free. He says in his episode to free these people and liberate them in order to solve the problems of the world . Sheen in some of his speeches found that this ideology like many other Americans evil. In a religious way communism was more considered as Satan’s answer to religion . The real matter of this fight against democracy and communism was becoming into a form of god versus godless to many in the religious circles . The fight against communism was quite an effective tool for Bishop Sheen to use in his process. This wasn’t more of a tool to help with the show’s ratings, it was something to help understand communism and its evils in the …show more content…
The medium of the television helped the church take advantage of the rising suburban families. Fulton Sheen with his show Life is worth living helped him and the church change a reputation that was known as strict, old and inferior. Bishop Sheen made the television the big staple for the Catholic Church in changing their reputation. The ideals that were implemented by the Bishop Sheen’s show made the church into a more human and a comfortable church to interact with rather than unappealing and isolated. His show looked to influence the masses weather it was Protestants or, Catholics or Jews . Sheen started the religious preaching on this medium and changed the way a church was perceived. He was known to be one of the pop stars of the television industry with his religious show