Fulton Sheen's Never-Before-Seen Writings on the Demonic
Evil in America rarely announces itself with horns and sulfur ; it arrives the way Fulton Sheen warned it would—quietly, daily, through the erosion of interior life. The hosts in your video linger on Sheen’s insistence that the devil’s preferred battleground is not the extraordinary but the ordinary: the distracted mind, the unguarded heart, the soul that has forgotten how to pray. America’s crisis, they argue, is not fundamentally political but spiritual. It is the slow surrender of silence to noise, of identity to confusion, of reverence to spectacle. Sheen saw this decades ago, warning that the demonic thrives when a people lose the ability to sit still before God. The conversation turns to Sheen’s three signs of the demonic—immodesty, violence, and fractured identity —and places them against the American landscape like a diagnostic chart. Our culture’s fixation on exposure, its celebration of aggression, its confusion about the human person: these are not merely social trends but s...
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