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Patience Required Regarding Archbishop Sheen’s Body
National Catholic Register ^
| December. 2, 2016
| Father Raymond J. de Souza
Posted on 12/02/2016 1:32:16 PM PST by BlessedBeGod
The battle over the bishop’s body continues. A court in New York ruled last month that Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s closest surviving relative, his niece Joan Sheen Cunningham, could transfer her uncle’s body to Peoria, Illinois. The Diocese of Peoria, which prepared the cause for Sheen’s beatification, has declared that unless it gets the body of the late bishop, it will not permit the beatification to proceed. Sheen is currently buried in the crypt under the high altar in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, and the trustees of St. Patrick’s have appealed the court ruling.
The facts are relatively straightforward: Archbishop Sheen, despite having been the bishop of Rochester, New York, where custom would have dictated that he be buried, asked to be buried in New York City. Upon his death in 1979, Cardinal Terrence Cooke decided to bury Sheen in St. Patrick’s. Peoria submits that Sheen, had he known that he would be beatified, would have wanted to be buried in Peoria, where the diocese has prepared a shrine for his body in the cathedral...
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To: BlessedBeGod
Not a Catholic, but I am a huge Sheen fan. I highly recommend any of his writings or radio broadcasts, if you can find them.
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posted on
12/02/2016 1:34:50 PM PST
by
rey
To: BlessedBeGod
Only one angel can dance on the head of a pin...
Foolishness abounds.
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posted on
12/02/2016 1:35:13 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: BlessedBeGod
Goodness, just send him to Peoria to be buried there, and let him rest in peace.
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posted on
12/02/2016 1:35:44 PM PST
by
NEMDF
To: rey
He was a fabulously gifted speaker. His reruns appear on EWTN. Many of those were made for the Dumont Network in the early 50’s, yet they are just as timely and relevant today as the day they were made.
This fighting over his body is quite unseemly. The Bible teaches that he is with the Lord, not in his grave. Seems very disrespectful to me to dig him up and move him for political reasons.
This is the sort of thing that causes non-Catholics to conclude that all of us are lunatics.
To: BlessedBeGod
Why on earth does it matter where he is buried?
Much ado about nothing.
.
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posted on
12/02/2016 1:38:23 PM PST
by
Mears
To: BlessedBeGod
Interesting read, but........ oh
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posted on
12/02/2016 1:42:42 PM PST
by
ALASKA
(Landslide.........)
To: Mears
You either aren’t Catholic, don’t understand Catholic relics, or both.
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posted on
12/02/2016 1:50:25 PM PST
by
steve86
(Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
To: Buckeye McFrog
This is the sort of thing that causes non-Catholics to conclude that all of us are lunatics. True - and it has been going on since at least 500 years before the Reformation. The churches that sprung up along the pilgrimage trail to the Holy Land sometimes stole various holy relics from one another.
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posted on
12/02/2016 1:50:29 PM PST
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: rey
Bye now, and God love ya!
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posted on
12/02/2016 1:52:33 PM PST
by
ichabod1
(Make America Normal Again)
To: Buckeye McFrog
They probably want to collect first class relics. THat really DOES sound kinda crazy.
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posted on
12/02/2016 1:54:18 PM PST
by
ichabod1
(Make America Normal Again)
To: BlessedBeGod; flaglady47
As they say, "Will it play in Peoria?
Leni
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posted on
12/02/2016 1:54:26 PM PST
by
MinuteGal
(L)
To: BlessedBeGod
Split ‘im down the middle and satisfy both dioceses...Believe me, he won’t feel a thing...
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posted on
12/02/2016 2:34:30 PM PST
by
Iscool
To: BlessedBeGod
Fighting over a corpse?
Who do they think he is? James Brown?
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posted on
12/02/2016 2:43:57 PM PST
by
Vermont Lt
(Brace. Brace. Brace. Heads down. Do not look up.)
To: BlessedBeGod
El Paso, IL is northeast of Peoria. Just a little place.
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posted on
12/02/2016 7:05:35 PM PST
by
virgil
(The evil that men do lives after them.)
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