Rochester diocese request led to beatification delay
AP - Star Tribune
(David Crary) The Catholic diocese of Rochester, N.Y., confirms it made the request for further investigations that prompted the Vatican to take the rare step of delaying Archbishop Fulton Sheen's journey to sainthood. Sheen, who died in 1979, was best known for his radio and TV preaching. The new controversy is the latest to bedevil his beatification cause, which was stalled by an expensive, years-long legal battle between Sheen's relatives in Peoria, Illinois, and the New York City archdiocese over his final resting place. (...)




















