{"id":33513,"date":"2016-06-14T14:37:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T18:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=33513"},"modified":"2016-06-15T18:42:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T22:42:28","slug":"sheen-archbishops-body-moved-to-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/06\/sheen-archbishops-body-moved-to-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheen&#8217;s Body to move to Illinois?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Fulton-Sheen.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33514\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33514 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Fulton-Sheen-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Fulton Sheen\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Fulton-Sheen-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Fulton-Sheen-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Fulton-Sheen-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Fulton-Sheen.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The saga of who gets the body is rather sad. Who would think that the process of getting a person declared a saint in the Catholic Church could get acrimonious? But, in the case of the Venerable Servant of God Fulton J. Sheen it is. Today it was announced that the niece of Sheen, Joan Sheen Cunningham, has petitioned the New York Supreme Court to move the mortal remains of her uncle from the crypt in St Patrick&#8217;s Cathedral (NYC) to the Peoria, Illinois. Sheen died on December 9, 1979.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll this focus on the body, the body,\u201d Mrs. Cunningham said in an interview last week. \u201cIt\u2019s forgetting what the purpose of the whole thing is. To keep someone from coming beatified over this, I think, is wrong.\u201d Perhaps Cardinal Dolan could speed up the Sheen cause for canonization by ending the court petition now and send the body back to Peoria as requested. He&#8217;ll get a relic out of the deal anyways. Delaying is a tantamount to ecclesiastical game-playing.<\/p>\n<p>The Diocese of Peoria has published\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fultonsheen.blogspot.com\/2016\/06\/press-release-june-14-2016.html\"><strong>this press release<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More to <a href=\"http:\/\/aleteia.org\/blogs\/deacon-greg-kandra\/breaking-fulton-sheens-family-petitions-court-to-move-body-to-illinois\/?ru=47d0756eb45e889ab5ed62566f95d010\"><strong>the story here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The saga of who gets the body is rather sad. Who would think that the process of getting a person declared a saint in the Catholic Church could get acrimonious? But, in the case of the Venerable Servant of God Fulton J. Sheen it is. Today it was announced that the niece of Sheen, Joan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/06\/sheen-archbishops-body-moved-to-illinois\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sheen&#8217;s Body to move to Illinois?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,22],"tags":[2563,3055],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33516,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33513\/revisions\/33516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}