Late Vietnamese cardinal put on road to sainthood
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The Roman Catholic Church on Monday began the sainthood procedure for a Vietnamese cardinal who was imprisoned by the communists for some 13 years.
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POPE Benedict XVI has named Kazimierz Nycz, a bishop in northern Poland, to succeed Cardinal Jozef Glemp as archbishop of Warsaw, a spokesman for the Polish episcopacy announced today.Comment
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Tucked away in the rolling  hills of southern Poland, this sleepy provincial town is slowly  becoming a pilgrimage destination for Roman Catholics devoted  to its most famous son, the late Pope John Paul.
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VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II on Sunday honored two figures linked to controversy, beatifying a German mystic whose violent visions of Christ's suffering helped inspire Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" and an Austrian emperor whose troops used poison gas.    Beatification is the last formal step in the Catholic Church before the possible conferring of sainthood, and John Paul has now beatified a record 1,338 faithful in his quest to give believers new models of sanctity...
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The Vatican has issued tough new rules making the route to sainthood more difficult.
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ASIA/VIETNAM - Per la missione in Asia occorre Âriscoprire lo spirito di San Francesco SaverioÂ, afferma il Card. Telesphore Toppo, in una celebrazione per il V centenario della nascita, svoltasi in Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - Per ridare slancio allÂevangelizzazione in Asia Âriscoprire lo spirito di San Francesco SaverioÂ, ha detto il Card. Telesphore Toppo in una celebrazione di chiusura del V centenario della nascita del Patrono delle M...
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Pope John Paul, looking tired and speaking with difficulty, put five Catholics on the road to sainthood Sunday, including the 19th century German mystic nun who inspired Mel Gibson&#39;s film on Christ&#39;s passion.
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For a man with such strong convictions, the Holy Father has shown a surprising penchant for verbal missteps
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Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, who has built an international following during 38 years in exile, left France to return to his home country for the first time since 1967.
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Cardinal James A. Hickey, head of the Roman Catholic church in Washington, D.C., for 20 years, died on Sunday, the city's regional church body said. He was 84.
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A frail Pope John Paul II traveled to a hilltop shrine near the Adriatic Sea on Sunday, putting three more Catholics on the road to sainthood during an open-air Mass attended by some 200,000 pilgrims.
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New Catholic bishop of Beijing understood to have informal blessing of Pope and replaces fervent anti-papist.
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A delegation from the Vatican is in Vietnam for another round of talks on establishing diplomatic ties.
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The Vatican issued a new guide to saint making on Monday that it hopes will clarify and streamline the process of singling out souls for Catholicism's highest honor.
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ASIA/VIETNAM - Esultanza e attesa nella Chiesa locale per la causa di Beatificazione del Cardinale Francois Nguyen Van Thuan Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - CÂÃ¨ grande gioia ed esultanza nella Chiesa vietnamita per lÂimminente apertura del processo di Beatificazione del Card. Francois Nguyen Van Thuan, indimenticato apostolo e Pastore della Chiesa in Vietnam, morto il 16 settembre...
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Pope John Paul II is moving five Catholics closer to sainthood. Those who were beatified include Austria's last reigning emperor and a German nun whose visions of Christ's suffering helped inspire Mel Gibson's ...
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Pope Benedict XVI has put Sister Lucia, the last of three shepherd children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary during apparitions in 1917, on a fast-track to possible sainthood, the Vatican said Wednesday.