Is it unseemly to fight over the corpse of a dead priest - who has been dead for 35 years?

Is this a Catholic thing? It seems like a black eye in the face of the Catholic Church – rather tacky and unseemly.

Bishop Sheen died in 1979, and his corpse buried in New York City. Peoria Illinois wants thee body as well, and built a shrine for it.

Does it matter? Why can’t they leave the dead guy alone?

Unbelievable that this goes in in the year 2014