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December 6, 2016

Sheen remains transfer granted stay as New York archdiocese plans to appeal

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen is pictured at a pulpit in an undated file photo.

PEORIA, Ill. – Hopes buoyed in the Diocese of Peoria by a Nov. 17 court ruling allowing Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen's family to transfer the sainthood candidate's remains from New York to Peoria were tempered by an emergency stay being granted to the Archdiocese of New York, which planned to appeal the ruling.

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