According to a report on today’s Catholic World News site, the beatification of John Henry Cardinal Newman could take place before the end of the year:

The Vatican has directed that the body of Cardinal John Henry Newman should be exhumed from a simple cemetery and preserved in a marble sarcophagus in the Birmingham Oratory, according to English newspaper reports.

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Church officials in England hope that the beatification of the famous theologian — a convert from the Church of England and a towering figure in the English intellectual world of the 19th century — could take place before the end of this year.