Vatican beatification stirs Spanish war memories
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The Vatican held the biggest mass  beatification in history on Sunday, putting nearly 500  Catholics killed during the Spanish civil war on the path to  possible sainthood.
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Pope John Paul has declared two controversial figures blessed - the last stage of beatification before sainthood. One of them is Emperor Karl of Austria, a devout Catholic, who has been criticised for authorising
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Cardinal Clemens August von Galen, a wartime German cleric who openly criticised the Nazis and their euthanasia killings, is set to be put on the path to Roman Catholic sainthood by Pope John Paul next year.
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Loreto, Sep. 06  - Pope John Paul II (bio - news) traveled to the Marian shrine at Loreto, Italy, on September 5, where he presided at the beatification of three members of Catholic Action.
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Pope John Paul has said Mass for several hundred thousand people and put two Italians and a Spaniard who lived in the 20th century on the road to sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church.
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ELLUNO, Italy, OCT. 20, 2004 .- For Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Pope John Paul I is "an example for all" and he prays for his beatification.
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VATICAN CITY - 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."   Cheers went up in St. Peter's Square from a crowd of about 30,000 people when the pontiff finished reading the Latin words with which he beatified the five candidates, and banners with their images were unfurled on the facade of St...
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Description: NPR&#39;s John Ydstie talks with John Allen, Vatican correspondent for The National Catholic Reporter, about Sunday&#39;s beatification ceremony for five new Catholic saints.
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The Salvadoran government said Friday it will ask the Vatican to beatify slain Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, but it will not accept responsibility in his 1980 killing.
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A 19th Century nun whose visions inspired a Hollywood film is one of two Catholics to be beatified by the pope.
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German-born Pope Benedict XVI acknowledged the painful wounds inflicted on Poland by Nazi Germany during World War II as he embarked on a visit to the homeland of his predecessor, Polish-born John Paul II.
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Pope Benedict XVI encouraged prayers Friday for the beatification of his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, an eagerly awaited remark on a cause close to the hearts of many Poles.
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BARCELONA -- When Elvira Lindo, a Spanish writer, delivered the opening speech at the annual festival of the patron saint of Barcelona one autumn afternoon this year, she arrived under the protection of an armored car.
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Pope John Paul II was greeted yesterday by about 200,000 pilgrims at a shrine in Loreto, Italy, where he beatified three members of the lay political movement Catholic Action.
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Spain on Tuesday mourned six of its peacekeepers who were killed in a bomb blast in southern Lebanon on Sunday, with flags flown at half-mast on a national day of mourning. via Ya Libnan
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The Vatican staged its largest mass beatification ceremony ever Sunday, putting 498 victims of religious persecution before and during Spain's civil war on the path to possible sainthood.
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A decree by Pope Benedict allowing priests to say the old Latin Mass more frequently has sparked criticism within both Catholic and Jewish ranks, with one Italian bishop saying he was "in mourning".