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. Mary s Cathedral in Peoria Dec. 9, 2020, the 41st anniversary of the media pioneer s death. He began the Mass by announcing that Msgr. Richard Soseman, vice postulator for Archbishop Sheen s sainthood cause, had died of COVID-19 just hours earlier. (CNS photo/Tom Dermody, The Catholic Post) .Msgr. Richard Soseman, a priest of the Diocese of Peoria, Ill., and vice postulator of the sainthood cause of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, pictured in this 2013 photo, died of COVID-19 Dec. 9, 2020, at the age of 57. His death came on the same day the archbishop died 41 years earlier and was announced at an anniversary Mass broadcast from Archbishop Sheen s tomb at St. Mary s Cathedral in Peoria. (CNS photo/Nancy Piccione, The Catholic Post)
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.