I like watching these old Bishop Sheen black-and-whites because they really give an idea of the imminent moral and political challenges our country faced back then. We can see some of the crossroads that the nation faced and, 65 years later, we can judge whether the country made the right choices or not. Prominent themes were communism, Russia, and the fear of nuclear war. Perhaps today we have to admit that communism eventually did win in America (and the West). And even now we have fools in Washington constantly poking the Bear, risking a war that would be the end of us. It is too soon to say that we have cleared the threat of nuclear war.
It is hard to believe that back then this program was a top prime-time show. I don’t think we could see something like that now, which alone says something.
I wonder: what are the signs of our times today? How would God judge us?