dispute between the Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Peoria, Illinois, has blocked progress toward the beatification of Archbishop Fulton Sheen.

Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria made a surprise announcement on September 3 that the Vatican has decided to suspend the cause for Archbishop Sheen's beatification, which had been expected to take place next year. The bishop said that he was making this announcement "with immense sadness," after failing to reach an agreement with the New York archdiocese about the transfer of Archbishop Sheen's remains.

The Peoria diocese, where the renowned preacher was raised and ordained to the priesthood, had taken the lead in promoting the cause for his beatification. In April, a Vatican-appointed panel approved the validity of a miracle attributed to Archbishop Sheen's intercession, and Church officials predicted that the beatification ceremony would take place in Peoria in 2015.

However, Bishop Jenky revealed that the New York archdiocese has balked at a request to transfer the late archbishop's remains to Peoria, for an inspection and the preparation of first-class relics. Bishop Jenky said that he had been "personally assured on several occasions" that the New York archdiocese would cooperate in the transfer, but New York officials later withdrew their support and Vatican officials were unable to negotiate an agreement. Therefore, Bishop Jenky reported, the Congregation for the Causes of Saints "decided that the Sheen cause would not have to be relegated to the Congregation's historic archive."

Bishop Jenky's public announcement puts heavy pressure on the New York archdiocese to cooperate with Peoria in moving forward with the Sheen cause. But Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman for the New York archdiocese, announced on September 4 that the archdiocese has not received any order from the Vatican for removal of Archbishop Sheen's remains.

Archbishop Sheen is buried in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. The archdiocese has insisted that this was the late archbishop's wish, and that the Sheen family does not wish for the archbishop's remains to be moved.

Bonnie Engstrom, whose stillborn baby revived after she prayed for Archbishop Sheen's intercession-- thereby providing the miracle that is likely to fulfill the last formal requirement for his beatification-- told the Catholic Herald that her family was "incredibly saddened and confused" by the news that the cause had stalled, but she would continue to pray for an end to the impasse.

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It looks like petty bickering is what is stalling Fulton Sheen's canonization process.

[sigh] Poche strikes again.

If the subject of this article were, say, Father Gommar DePauw, a true Trad might have a reason to give a damn about this so-called petty bickering. By no other standards save those of "Saint" John Paul II the Greatest of Them All, however, could Bishop Sheen be described as having displayed heroic virtue. After the collapse of the Church following the council, he took the see offered him and thereafter played nicely in the conciliar sandbox with all the other members of the American episcopate.

Besides, what interest could this story have for people eager to learn the answer to the really important ecclesiastical question of the day: what sort of rainbow vestments and headgear will Cardinal Dolan be wearing when he marches up Fifth Avenue, arm in arm with Mayor de Blasio, at the head of the Irish ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs United for a More Truly Inclusive Church delegation in the next Saint Patrick's Day parade?

His statue that was set up by the protestants at the former Crystal Cathedral  Site in Orange County, Ca.   I say no.
Bishop Sheen died a non-Catholic. Does not deserve canonization.

I think people need to listen to the retreats and tv shows of Archbishop Sheen.  New York (New Jersey) needs all the help it can get.  

During the Council in 1964, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen was one of the first
Bishops ordering his Priests in his Diocese of Rochester, NY. To turn
their altars around and say Mass facing the people.
He also attempted to give to the Housing and Urban Development,
a new agency signed into law by LBJ  a historic Catholic Church in
the black part of Rochester. The faithful stopped the giveaway.
Sheen said that he favors the policies of the new department
such as block busting of traditional Catholic neighborhoods.
He is most famous in responding to a letter urging to stay away
from Priests whom still say the Latin Mass., and warn others to
stay away from these Masses.
Bishop sheen may have good at his start. However turned out
to be a compromiser and a non-Catholic.

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It looks like petty bickering is what is stalling Fulton Sheen's canonization process.

Poche - What do you suppose is "stalling" Archbishop Lefebvre's canonization process?

Could it be the same thing that is currently expediting Pope Paul VI's canonization process?

Can you tell us about any miracles that are attributed to Archbishop Lefebvre?

Would the miracle attributed to Montini be how fast his carcass turned black and rotted...

He is most famous in responding to a letter [________] urging [________] to stay away from Priests whom still say the Latin Mass., and warn others to stay away from these Masses.

It seems to me that when you've decided to criticize someone, you ought not leave any doubt about what you're claiming (that) that person did. But you inexplicably omitted important information above

• , so a reader can't be certain who did what in that "most famous" incident, i.e.: Bishop Sheen "responding to a letter" by whom?   Who was "urging" whom
• to do what? 
  
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It looks like petty bickering is what is stalling Fulton Sheen's canonization process.

Poche - What do you suppose is "stalling" Archbishop Lefebvre's canonization process?

Could it be the same thing that is currently expediting Pope Paul VI's canonization process?

Can you tell us about any miracles that are attributed to Archbishop Lefebvre?

Would the miracle attributed to Montini be how fast his carcass turned black and rotted...

NO, the miracule was the unexplicable cure of an unborn child  

Interesting slip of the Caps Lock key...

Would that be "NO" as in Paul VI's Novus Ordo? Was that - and his suppression of the Mass of Ages - another of his "miracles?"