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I felt like I somehow needed fame. In retrospect, there was a lot of self-loathing from tough childhood experiences, and I desperately hoped that love from without (i.e., from masses of other people) would somehow make up for hate from within.

...Coadjutor Bishop Louis Tylka of Peoria, Ill., celebrates a Mass at the tomb of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen at St. Marys Cathedral in Peoria Dec. 9, 2020, the 41st anniversary of the media pioneers death. He began the Mass by announcing that Msgr. Richard Soseman, vice postulator for Archbishop Sheens sainthood cause, had died of COVID-19 just hours earlier. (CNS photo/Tom Dermody, The Catholic Post) ...Msgr. Richard Soseman, a priest of ...

A Mass at the tomb of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen on the 41st anniversary of his death Dec. 9 also was a first opportunity for the Diocese of Peoria to mourn the death from COVID-19 two hours earlier of the vice postulator of the famed media pioneer and author’s cause for canonization.