Sister Lucia put on sainthood fast track
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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.
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St. Isidore of Seville is acclaimed as the patron saint of the Internet, and on sunny days, a stained-glass window of his likeness radiates its glow onto Boston College's Data Center .
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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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A SPECIAL mass has been held to celebrate the 100th birthday of Portsmouth's oldest nun.
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Sister Lucia Marto, the last of three children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary in a series of 1917 apparitions in the town of Fatima, has died, Portuguese media reported. She was 97.
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The Pope, looking tired and speaking with difficulty, has ploughed into fresh controversy with two startling new beatifications. Among the five people he set on the road to canonisation
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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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A Hungarian nun who helped save the lives of dozens of Jews during World War II was beatified Sunday in a Mass attended by thousands.
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VATICAN CITY, OCT. 3, 2004 ( Zenit.org ).- Anna Katharina Emmerick, the newly beatified Augustinian nun, endured long physical sufferings.
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The 19th century mystic nun who inspired some of the more controversial scenes of Mel Gibson&#39;s hit movie, The Passion of the Christ, was beatified on Sunday by Pope John Paul II.
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Six Catholic nuns have been excommunicated for heresy after refusing to give up membership in a Canadian sect whose founder claims to be the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary, the Diocese of Little Rock announced Wednesday.
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Growing up in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, Betty Ruiz Rodriguez recalls her yearly pilgrimages to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City.
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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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Sisters of Mercy Health System is putting money and people on a project to improve patient care through information technology. The St.
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Pope John Paul II on Sunday moved five Catholics closer to sainthood, including Austria's last reigning emperor and a German nun whose graphic visions of Christ's suffering helped inspire the blockbuster movie "The Passion of the Christ."
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Pope John Paul, looking tired and  speaking with difficulty, put five Catholics on the road to  sainthood on Sunday, including the 19th century German mystic  nun who inspired Mel Gibson's film on Christ's passion.
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Recent revelations about the crisis of faith suffered by Mother Teresa will not hamper her path to sainthood, her successor said Sunday at a ceremony to commemorate the 97th anniversary of her birth.