His family later moved to Peoria, Illinois where Sheen had his first role in the Church; he was an altar boy at St. Mary's Cathedral. After Sheen graduated high school in 1913, he attended school at St. Viator College in Bourbonnais, Illinois, where he attended Saint Paul Seminary in Minnesota before he was ordained. He was ordained on September 20, 1919. He continued his studies at The Catholic University of America, which is located in Washington D.C. At The Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium