I don’t understand two things here about “why” the canonization process has been stopped:
1) The denying of moving his body from where it is apparently currently buried to another location.
2) Why does the body have to be inspected before the canonization process can go forward?
Neither make sense to me, a Protestant, for stopping the process and seeking proof of miracles via his intersession.
All — Please note I’m not seeking a “food fight” from asking these two questions but am seeking to understand what seems to me to be separate from the canonization process.
Someone couldnt get on an airplane and ride over and look at it, inspect it where it is?
As I understand it, an exhumation of the body is always part of the canonisation process. In rare cases, the body of the saint has been found intact. In usual cases, the remains are reburied, after taking some tiny fragments of bones for relics. These relics, are later placed in a altar stone, if the canonisaton is completed.
There is someting odd about the halting of ArchBishop Sheen’s “cause”. I do not know why the New York authorities would not allow the grave to be opened. It might seem rather odd, from a contemporary perspective, but this has always been part of honouring saints in the Catholic church.
One does wonder if there is some other reason, which we are not being told.