Pope puts three Roman Catholics a step closer to sainthood
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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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ISTANBUL, Turkey  - Pope Benedict embarked on Wednesday on his second mission in Turkey, to improve ties between Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians, after winning approval for his conciliatory views on Turkey and Islam.
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ATICAN CITY, OCT. 25, 2004 .- John Paul II promoted the path to unity between Anglicans and Catholics, when he received some 80 pilgrims of the Anglican diocese of Rochester.
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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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Pope Benedict XVI is to canonise a new saint for Ireland in a ceremony at St Peter's Square on Sunday.
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The Pope will visit Italy's Adriatic coast for a beatification ceremony in his last journey of the year outside Rome.
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The "catholic" in Roman Catholic Church means "universal," but access to Vatican City, the tiny, independent city-state the pope calls home, is tightly controlled and hard to penetrate.
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Pope Benedict has decided to keep limbo in limbo a little longer.
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Pope John Paul II invites believers to display symbols of their faith with pride, despite recent rows.
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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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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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Pope Benedict XVIÂs visit to Turkey in late November is likely to be a flash point for a surprisingly broad array of issues.
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The Vatican issues new guidelines which will make the process of verifying saints more rigorous.
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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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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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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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Dublin will get a new saint in June when Pope Benedict XVI canonizes a Dutch priest who became a much-loved figure in the Irish capital, the city's archdiocese said Friday.