Posted on 11/17/2016 6:41:58 PM PST by marshmallow
The New York Supreme Court has just ruled that the body of Ven. Abp. Fulton J. Sheen can be moved from New York to Peoria, Illinois.
This breaks the two-year deadlock between the archdiocese of New York, headed by Cdl. Timothy Dolan, and the diocese of Peoria, headed by Bp. Daniel Jenky, who have been in a battle over who gets the remains of the beloved TV personality so his cause for sainthood can advance.
Recall: In 2014, Sheen's cause had come to a halt because Dolan was refusing to release the body, which lies in the crypt beneath St. Patrick's Cathedral — this in spite of the fact that Dolan's predecessor, Cdl. Edward Egan, had promised Jenky multiple times that New York would send Sheen's body to Peoria.
After fruitless meetings with Dolan and attempts to get the gridlock lifted over the course of two years, Sheen's closest living relative and niece — 88-year-old Joan Sheen Cunningham — filed a lawsuit against the New York archdiocese seeking that her uncle's remains be moved to Peoria so his cause could advance.
In a scathing, 10-page order made available this afternoon, Judge Arlene Bluth rejected the New York archdiocese's arguments and ruled in favor of Cunningham, ruling that she had "good and substantial reasons" to have Sheen's body removed.
Bluth point-by-point rejected each of the archdiocese's arguments. First, New York had initially argued that Sheen wanted to be buried in New York, and therefore his desires should be respected. But the court said the archdiocese had actually failed to respect Sheen's wishes as expressed in his will, where Sheen indicated he wanted to be buried in a simple plot in Calvary Cemetery in Queens, New York. The will was executed only five days before he died. Instead, the archdiocese.....
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He was a good man who grew up in a very conservative town.
I’ll be willing to bet when Fulton J. Sheen is exhumed he will be found incorrupt. A Holy evangelist and a personal of mine.
http://www.fultonsheen.com/mp3
A personal favorite of mine - I learned so much from him
I recall the whole family watching him on TV. Someone I will never forget.
Yes - cause this is what you read about in the epistles - churches fighting over the bodies of ‘saints’.
ugh
“He was a good man who grew up in a very conservative town.”
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And a gifted speaker, to boot - both eloquent and plain-spoken. I catch his radio/TV broadcast reruns when I have the chance.
We used to gather around the TV set to watch his show every week.
Similar thoughts here. Bad optics for certain.
Same here. Brings back warm memories.
“I recall the whole family watching him on TV. Someone I will never forget.”
Shows how different the culture was then.
TV was used for fantastic good.
Dramas showed strong fathers and unified families (”Father knows best”—try and get that TITLE approved for a show, let alone the scripts...)
For the past 50 year’s we’ve changed into a “godless” society (but not one without progressive dogmas)
“Yes - cause this is what you read about in the epistles - churches fighting over the bodies of ‘saints’.”
They didn’t write about it in the epistles because no one transported bodies in those days great distances because of cost and prohibitions. They did so for ALL of the Apostles bodies, however, to one length or another, soon enough. And they knew why to do it too: 2 Kings 13:21.
FKB another favorite. Indeed. Godless & lawless. But we know how it ends. Look up!
He has a new and perfect body and his soul no longer resides in the old and worn out corpse - why all the flap about where it goes?
Happened a lot in the first millennium, actually. St. Nicholas, for example.
Old link didn’t work, here’s one that does:
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/court-rules-to-move-abp.-sheens-body
Old news,not interested.
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