This is not a time for the Church to bleed out more authority in a scandal. What once started as a rather humorous “Who gets the body” controversy between two dioceses now becomes a real problem for the Church and its ability to identify saints. Rocco Palma’s ominous tweet probably means that there is much scurrying and worrying in Rome tonight as this brouhaha morphs into a terrible scandal about clerical jealousy and the wish to defame a noble and holy dead man’s reputation. Halting a beatification this far along has not been done before, so this is serious business. Sheen had to suffer the effects of this sin from his confreres many times in life and now apparently even in death. One of the worst sins among clerics is clerical envy. As I mentioned before, such cowardice from ecclesiastics unwilling to publicly support the truth is reprehensible. The process is halted indefinitely pending the outcome of the Attorney General of New York’s report on abuse in the dioceses of the state, just in case they happen to perpetuate the slander against Sheen. The rest of the news is already known to you. The bishop is not powerful enough to stop the process himself so two archbishops were enlisted to help, Cardinals Cupich and Dolan. What has not been reported is that after the Sheen cause was put forward again, Bishop Matano objected strenuously again to the Vatican Ambassador to the U.S. The relevant Vatican and Peoria offices did due diligence and cleared Sheen. Bishop Matano, the current bishop, protested to the Vatican this past summer that Sheen should not be beatified till this was cleared up. The laicized priest is still alive at age 95 and says that Sheen never transferred him. Guli, now laicized, was actually transferred under Sheen’s successor. There is concern that he transferred an abusive priest to another parish during his time as bishop. The problems rests with Sheen’s time as bishop of that diocese. And that tweet was amid the shadowy machinations of the Diocese of Rochester which has not been entirely forthcoming with its role in halting the beatification.
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