Live in St. Louis, episcopal health concerns, and a New York state of mind

Happy Friday friends,

Let’s kick off with something fun: We have a live show coming up!

Next month will see (finally) the beatification of Ven. Fulton Sheen. After a lengthy, sometimes acrimonious, and always contentious back-and-forth between the archbishop’s home Diocese of Peoria and the Archdiocese of New York, where he served as an auxiliary bishop and was buried for many years, the beatification is now scheduled to take place in… St. Louis on September 24.

I tease. The Diocese of Peoria opted to move the event to a larger city because Sheen is a towering figure in American Catholic culture and, hopefully, there will be a lot of people coming to celebrate. JD and I will certainly be there, in fact we’ll be combining work with personal piety and rolling along the Sheen celebrations on a small Pillar pilgrimage, which you can still attend.

But, while the main event of the week is the beatification itself on the 24th, JD and I will be pre-gaming with a live Pillar Podcast at 9pm on September 23rd and we want you all to come.

Thanks to the generous sponsorship of the Catholic Education Fund, we’re able to go a little bit bigger than our usual MO