Pope puts 5 faithful on path to sainthood
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VATICAN CITYâPope John Paul II yesterday honoured two figures linked to controversy, beatifying German mystic Sister Anna Katharina Emmerick, whose violent visions of Christ&#39;s suffering helped inspire Mel Gibson&#39;s film The Passion Of The Christ, and the
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Pope Benedict led the world's Catholics into the 40-day Lenten season on Wednesday, urging them to practice prayer, fasting, penitence and alms giving.
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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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The Vatican is making it tougher to become a saint.
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Pope Benedict has decided to keep limbo in limbo a little longer.
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(Vatican City-AP) Nov. 27, 2004 - Pope John Paul has handed over centuries-old relics of two Orthodox saints to the spiritual leader of the world&#39;s Orthodox Christians.
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On his way to his birthplace in Germany, Pope Benedict XVI tried to give a positive outlook to the faithful in his homeland
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Roman Catholic officials urged the faithful to fill St. Peter's Square on Sunday to show support for the hospitalized pope.
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By La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 3--Bishop Jerome Listecki ordained 11 men to the permanent diaconate for the Diocese of La Crosse on Jan. 27 at St. Joseph the Workman Cathedral.
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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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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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LOURDES, France - A frail Pope John Paul II, breathing heavily and gasping at times, celebrated an open-air Mass on Sunday for several hundred thousand pilgrims, many in wheelchairs, at a shrine to the Virgin Mary that is associated with miraculous cures.    At one point he said "help me" in Polish while struggling through his homily in French...
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Five people in five cities reflect on the nationÂs road forward.
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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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LOURDES -- His voice weak, his legs unsteady as he knelt in prayer, Pope John Paul II joined thousands of other ailing pilgrims yesterday at a cliffside shrine known for its miraculous cures, telling them that he shared in their physical suffering and assuring them that the burden was part of God's &quot;wondrous plan.&quot;
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Pope John Paul II was greeted Sunday by about 200,000 pilgrims at a shrine in Loreto, Italy, where he beatified three future saints.
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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.