Msgr. Roger Landry, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies USA, joins Deacon Mark Campbell to explain the World Mission Rosary and the national campaign to hand-make 75,000 of them ahead of Archbishop Fulton Sheen's beatification. Landry traces the five-decade, five-color rosary Sheen designed in 1951 to unite American Catholics in prayer for the missions on every continent, and details how tens of thousands of the faithful will pray it together immediately before Sheen's beatification Mass on September 24 in St. Louis. He also shares how listeners can contribute handmade rosaries to the effort and where to follow the historic beatification.
About the Guest Msgr. Roger Landry is the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies USA (TPMS-USA) and the current successor to Archbishop Fulton Sheen, who served as the organization's fifth national director from 1950 to 1966.
The World Mission Rosary Sheen designed the multicolored World Mission Rosary in 1951 — green for Africa, blue for Oceania and the Pacific, white for Europe, red for the Americas, and yellow for Asia — as a way for American Catholics to pray for missionaries on every continent. Ahead of Sheen's beatification, the Pontifical Mission Societies are asking parishes, religious communities, and individuals nationwide to hand-make 75,000 of these rosaries so every attendee can receive and pray one together before the Mass begins.
How to Help Instructions for making and shipping World Mission Rosaries — plus where to send completed rosaries by September 15 — are available at The Pontifical Mission Societies.
Beatification Details Archbishop Fulton Sheen will be beatified on September 24, 2026, at The Dome at America's Center in St. Louis. Once formally beatified, his feast day will be celebrated each year on December 9, the date of his death in 1979. More details on attending or watching the beatification are available at celebratesheen.com.
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