Miracle report helps Archbishop Fulton Sheen's sainthood cause

From the National Catholic Register:

VATICAN CITY (National Catholic Register) – Andrea Ambrosi has overseen and completed the causes of hundreds of holy men and women in the church, leading to their recognition as blesseds or saints. Few have been as compelling as that of Archbishop Fulton Sheen.

“His cause is one of the most interesting that we’re dealing with,” said Ambrosi. “There’s enormous interest in this cause on all levels.”

The cause advanced this summer when a report containing a miracle was signed in late July by Church officials. The miracle allegedly took place in 1999 and involved a 72-year-old woman in Champaign, Ill., who was miraculously healed of a life-threatening tear in her main pulmonary artery after undergoing lung surgery.

Her husband prayed for two hours, continually invoking Sheen’s name. The woman is still alive today.

Ambrosi, postulator of the cause, has now sent the 500-page report and supporting documents to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints for review. [More...]