To a Catholic boy like Tim Dolan, growing up in the heartland when Protestant neighbors still made casual jokes about the \u201cpapists\u201d\u009d next door, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen rode into town in the 1950s on the new main street of the United States, the television set, like a true-blue American hero.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe showed the broad American public that the truths of our faith were consonant with the highest values of the society: patriotism, God, family and the struggle against Communism,\u201d\u009d said that boy, now known as Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York.<\/p>\n
Archbishop Dolan led a memorial Mass on Wednesday evening at St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the death of Bishop Sheen. An auxiliary bishop of the New York Archdiocese from 1951 to 1965, the man whom the Rev. Billy Graham called \u201cthe greatest communicator of the 20th century\u201d\u009d is buried in a crypt under the cathedral altar, which was open for public viewing before the Mass.<\/p>\n