Posted on 08/31/2021 6:49:16 PM PDT by marshmallow
Proponents of the beatification of Venerable Fulton Sheen are still searching for answers about the cause, nearly two years after that process was paused.
“I don’t know much,” Bishop Louis Tylka, Coadjutor Bishop of Peoria, told CNA in an interview. “Basically, the cause was put on hold, and there really hasn’t been movement.”
Venerable Sheen, an American evangelist and television personality who died in 1979, was set to be beatified in Peoria, where he had served as a priest, in December 2019. The ceremony was indefinitely postponed by the Vatican just weeks before the scheduled ceremony, at the request of Bishop Salvatore Matano of Rochester.
Archbishop Sheen had been Bishop of Rochester from 1966 to 1969.
In a Dec. 5, 2019 statement, a spokesperson for the Diocese of Rochester said that while it “appreciates the many accomplishments that Archbishop Sheen achieved in his lifetime,” a cause for beatification “must entail a review of the person’s entire life,” and therefore believed “a further review of his role in priests’ assignments” was warranted before Venerable Sheen’s cause could proceed.
Earlier this month, a window allowing lawsuits over child sexual abuse claims beyond the statute of limitations closed in New York. Empire State lawmakers passed the Child Victims Act in 2019, which temporarily lifted the statute of limitations, allowing childhood victims of sexual abuse to take legal action. The deadline for such lawsuits, initially set for August 2020, was extended to August 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, nearly 10,000 lawsuits were filed in that window, including “thousands of accusations of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy, more than a thousand against Boy Scout leaders, and still more against teachers, coaches, health care workers, and family members.”
Bishop Tylka said that there is speculation that the closing.......
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He sure did a great job on many of his tv broadcasts. Helped a lot of people back in the day
I ain’t Catholic but I liked the dude. I’m sure Frankie will veto it.
Totally agree! Relevant Radio the Catholic radio network replays his talk shows Sunday at 8 to 9am prior to offering Sunday mass and his talks made decades ago are amazing, his approach is right on today’s topics.
Fulton Sheen was a great man and should have such honor bestowed upon him!
My mom loved him. He kinda had spooky eyes —they seemed to follow you everywhere....
He is already a saint according to Scripture. He doesn’t need some unbiblical papal enclave to declare him thus.
He is already a saint according to Scripture. He doesn’t need some unbiblical papal enclave to declare him thus.
Remember his very correct, dignified and yet very warm manner. And at times he displayed a great sense of humor. Wish I had listened more carefully to his preaching, when we watched him on Sunday night TV in my boyhood...
I’m not Catholic, but I love his sermons, especially the ones on Communism. Talk about being dead-on! I first started watching them years ago on EWTN, and later on YouTube when they were no longer being aired. This man was incredibly wise.
#10. I’m Jewish and I watch Bishop Sheen’s television broadcasts. I felt that he was a good man in the service of God and country. I know that many other Jews felt the same way and respected him.
The same for the Rev. Billie Graham, a true humanitarian.
I don't know what you mean by an "unbiblical papal enclave," but you're right. He doesn't need it. It's done for our benefit, not his.
No way will a traditional, pre-V2, conservative, devout priest be made a saint in Bergoglio’s regime. I’ve said for years people who are wondering what’s holding up the process are clueless about the current Church zeitgeist.
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