Pope puts U.S.'s Fulton Sheen on road to sainthood
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
Pope Benedict put the late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, seen as the world's first televangelist because of his popular programs in the 1950s-1960s in the United States, on the road to sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday.
The pope signed a decree recognizing that Sheen lived a life of "heroic virtues", an early step in the path that can lead to sainthood.
Now a miracle must be attributed for him to be beatified, which is the last step before sainthood.