New York court rules that Fulton Sheen's remains should be transferred to Peoria

Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria has announced "with great joy" that the New York State Supreme Court's Appellate Division ruled 5-0 that the remains of Archbishop Fulton Sheen should be transferred from New York to his diocese.

Bishop Jenky is promoter of the canonisation cause of Archbishop Sheen, a Peoria diocesan priest, who gained fame in the 1950s with a prime-time television series called Life Is Worth Living. He died in New York on December 9, 1979, at age 84, and was entombed in the crypt at St. Patrick's Cathedral.