Andrew Apostoli

Okay, now we know the saints in heaven have a sense of humor as well.

And so about maybe three months later, Father Andrew Apostoli f- brings us on these weekend retreats to the Blue Army Shrine right here.

So we're up in the woods at the retreat house, and we're settling in.

There's 17 of us camping out on the floor, kind of like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, right? Like 17 dwarves, okay? And, uh, this thing starts again about, "You shouldn't be calling her the little monkey," and I'm like, "Yes, you should." I kid you not, 30 seconds later, one of the maintenance guys from the shrine rings the doorbell at the retreat house.

I was part of the initial Sheen Guild that opened Fulton Sheen's cause for sainthood.

Uh, we're gonna talk about my friend, uh, Father Andrew Apostoli, who asked me to join that guild.

When Bishop Barron joined us last week, he told me he came to Sheen via his seminarians who had seen him on EWTN.

And I wanna tell you how he returned to TV because I, I didn't realize how it would happen or how important that moment was.

Wow.

I wanna...

Father, before I get you to comment on this whole question of Sheen's ministry, which was so warning about communism, this is Father Andrew Apostoli on another aspect of the communist influence and Sheen's concern for the priesthood.

There was, uh, one part of the message which may be a little bit, uh, startling to many of our viewers, um, but he, in his converts, among, among his converts, he converted a woman who was a communist.

But, you know, I met good people.

So I met Father Andrew Apostoli, God rest his soul.

And he pulls me aside and says, hey, Al, you know, you're Johnny Hustle.

You've got all this.

They read it especially during Holy Week.

Now, Father Andrew Apostoli, who was ordained by Fulton Sheen in 1967, who died in 2017.

I was...

Months after I went to Ireland with him on a pilgrimage.