Violating Cardinal Newman's wishes

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The Pope wants to rebury John Newman separately from the man he loved, Father Ambrose St John



The Vatican wants to exhume and rebury Cardinal John Henry Newman in a new tomb in Birmingham Oratory church, in preparation for him being made a saint later this year.

The Vatican is embarrassed that Newman is currently buried in the same grave as the man he shared much of his life with, Father Ambrose St John. Although inseparable in life and buried together for 118 years, the Catholic Church now wants to tear them apart.

Newman and St John have been buried side-by-side in a simple grave since Newman's death in 1890. It was what Newman wanted. He wrote to his executors shortly before his death stating emphatically: "I wish, with all my heart, to be buried in Father Ambrose St John's grave – and I give this as my last, my imperative will."

Despite this categorical instruction, the Vatican is now overturning it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/04/catholicism.gayrights?gusrc=rss&feed=uknews

MAYBE they could do some horsetrading on this one....like exhuming Hitler's Pope Pius XII and reburying him next to Rasputin?