Priest's beatification stalled amid anti-Semitism claim

Pope Benedict XVI has suspended the planned beatification of a French priest while the Vatican investigates allegations of anti-Semitism in his writings.

Priest's beatification stalled amid anti-Semitism claim

Pope Benedict XVI has suspended the planned beatification of a French priest while the Vatican investigates allegations of anti-Semitism in his writings.

The case of the Rev Leon Dehon, who founded the priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus religious order in 1877, is even more remarkable because he probably would have been beatified had Pope John Paul II lived a few weeks longer.

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