All or nothing.

While he was alive, Cardinal Newman specified - and not just once - that when he died he wished to be buried next to his life-long friend Father Ambrose St John at Rednal in Worcestershire, and so it was. Now however the Catholic Church is in the process of canonising him, and to this end intend to exhume his remains and take them to Birmingham Oratory where he will lie in state and eventually be re-buried there. So why are his express wishes being over-ridden? It seems the Church are uncomfortable with his life-long association with another man. It would appear that there cannot be even the slightest suggestion that a saint just possibly might have been gay - not that there is any evidence that he was. Smacks a bit of air-brushing inconvenient people out of photographs, doesn't it? If he is worthy of veneration, then this is because of who and what he was - it makes no sense to cherry-pick the bits you like and pretend the rest doesn't exist.