Bishop Sheen on MFCCS

“  "The Kiss That Blistered" The Dennis Praeger video below's message is that we have failed to pass on to our children the Big Idea.  The values that formed this nation, and unarguably made us the greatest nation in this cycle of human history.  I don't proselytize here, but some things are so much a part of who I am that they cannot be ignored in the context of today's turmoil. As a kid (I apologize to those who've heard this) in Catholic school (Chicago),  we were literally compelled to watch  Bishop Sheen's "Life is Worth Living" on Monday evening.  It cannot have been for religious indoctrination since we were immersed in it anyway.  It was more than that. The nuns would quiz us the next morning to weed out miscreants who had succumbed to Milton Berle (who joked "He uses old material too."). Anyway, the reason Sheen's show was an Emmy winner was due in no small part to his delivery and stage presence.  He began every show with a humorous anecdote that segued into his message.  That message was seldom religious, but would lay a foundation for one that often was.  At any rate, he reflected the values of a nation,  and was part of our character formation. Start this video at the 1:07 mark and watch until his point about Communism is made (ahem), and he moves into Judas's betrayal of Jesus parallel (to avoid the religious part).   I think that most people here will agree that these ideas were part and parcel of  their own experience and belief, and why the hair raises on our necks when Government Speaks. ”