In a fight that has bitterly pitted two Catholic dioceses against each other, a state appeals court has ruled that famed Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen’s remains must be transferred from St. Patrick’s Cathedral to a cathedral in Peoria, Illinois.

Issuing its second opinion in 13 months in the unique disinterment case, the Appellate Division, First Department has sided with the 91-year-old niece of Sheen based largely on her and a monsignor’s lower-court testimony about Sheen’s beliefs and reverence for sainthood, and on the chance that, after the transfer happens, he will be declared a saint by the Vatican.

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