Vatican Delaying Sheen’s Beatification churchmilitant.com
Venerable Fulton Sheen's cause for beatification is currently at a standstill. Between American prelates playing games and the Vatican failing to give updates, the late bishop's path to sainthood is up in the air. Church Militant's William Mahoney looks at the situation and recent comments from a bishop in Sheen's home diocese.
Louis Tylka, coadjutor bishop of the Peoria diocese in Illinois, is uncertain why there's a pause in Sheen's beatification. In the year he's been in Peoria, Bp. Tylka has heard nothing from the Vatican.
Tylka, originally a priest from Chicago, was made a coadjutor bishop last summer and is on track to succeed Peoria's current ordinary in 2022. He recently explained to the Journal Star, Peoria's major newspaper, nobody in the Vatican has provided any reasons why Sheen's cause should not go forward…
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