Pope Beatifies Emperor, Nun, Three Others
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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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Pope John Paul II ( bio - news ) met on Tuesday, September 7, with a group of pilgrims from Spain, who had traveled to Italy for the beatification of Father Pere Tarres I Claret, a priest of the Barcelona ...
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The first state-appointed Chinese Catholic bishop for 50 years to have the Pope's approval is being consecrated.
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The last emperor of Austria, Karl I, will be beatified by Pope John Paul today amid fierce political and religious argument over how saintly he really was.
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LORETO, Italy  - A frail Pope John Paul travelled 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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LORETO, Italy, SEPT. 5, 2004 ( Zenit.org ).- John Paul II pointed to the testimony of Pere Tarres i Claret, a doctor who became a priest on his way to beatification.
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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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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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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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road to sainthood, including the 19th century German mystic nun who inspired Mel Gibson&#39;s film on Christ&#39;s passion. At the same ceremony in St Peter&#39;s Square on Sunday, he beatified Austria&#39;s last emperor, Karl I. Some of.
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Oggi il Papa proclama cinque nuovi beati, facendo salire a 1.338 il numero delle beatificazioni celebrate durante il suo pontificato. Saranno beatificati, in piazza San Pietro, la mistica tedesca Anna Katharina
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Pope Benedict ushered in the third New Year of his pontificate on Tuesday with a call for the protection of the traditional family, which he said was vital for world peace.
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A state-approved Catholic bishop of Beijing was installed to applause from parishioners on Friday in a tightly orchestrated ceremony that was subsequently endorsed by the Vatican, in a sign of a thaw in relations.
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REGENSBURG, Germany  - Pope Benedict dedicated a   church organ named after himself on Wednesday and took the   image of the multi-piped instrument as a symbol for the way   Roman Catholicism should seek harmony in its diversity.
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Pope Benedict XVI, reaching out to disillusioned Catholics across Europe, ended a three-day Austria pilgrimage Sunday with a Mass in Vienna and a stop at a medieval abbey that drew tens of thousands of cheering faithful.
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LORETO, Italy -- A frail Pope John Paul II put three more Roman Catholics on the road to sainthood during a visit to a hilltop shrine yesterday, struggling at times but cheered on by 200,000 pilgrims.
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Pope Benedict XVI becomes the first pontiff to visit a holy icon believed to carry an imprint of Christ's face.