Vatican beatifies 498 Spanish martyrs
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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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Spain's Roman Catholic church has effectively placed itself in the frontline of political opposition to Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's six month-old government by calling the first major ...
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Wojtyla durante l&#39;Angelus appare in buona forma e si prepara a festeggiare i 150 anni del dogma mariano. L&#39;8 il Pontefice si recherÃ  in Piazza di Spagna per esprimere la propria devozione. E invita romani e pellegrini a seguirlo.
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Pope John Paul prayed for the victims of the &quot;inhumane violence&quot; of Russia&#39;s Beslan school tragedy as he said Mass on Sunday before 200,000 people in central Italy.
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Forty-seven members of front groups for Basque separatist guerrillas ETA were sentenced to a total of more than 500 years in prison by Spain's high court on Wednesday after one of the longest trials of its type here.
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Seville's minaret has been the bell tower of the city's Roman Catholic cathedral for the last 500 years.
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Pope John Paul II on Sunday will beatify Sister Anne Catherine Emmerich, a sickly 19th century nun who claimed to have visions that gave her courtside seats at Jesus&#39; execution.
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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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The Vatican said Friday it had asked the Mexican founder of the conservative order Legionaries of Christ to renounce celebrating public Masses and live a life of &quot;prayer and repentance&quot; following its investigation into allegations he sexually abused seminarians.
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Advancing the sainthood causes of five Europeans, Pope John Paul II beatified the last Hapsburg emperor and the nun whose visions inspired Mel Gibson s film, The Passion of the Christ.
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Pope Benedict XVI praised marriage between a man and a woman as part of God&#039;s &quot;loving plan,&quot; defending the traditional family Sunday at a Mass in Spain attended by hundreds of thousands.
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The beatification of 498 Catholics  killed during the Spanish Civil war was not politically  motivated, the Vatican's number two said on Monday.
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Pope Benedict XVI named four new saints Sunday from France, Malta, the Netherlands and Poland at a ceremony in St. Peter's Square attended by several heads of state and thousands of faithful.
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EUROPA/SPAGNA - ÂLa vita di San Francesco Saverio Ã¨ contemporaneamente un miracolo di santitÃ  ed un monumento di umanitÃ Â: numerose iniziative per la chiusura del V Centenario della nascita del Patrono delle Missioni Javier (Agenzia Fides) - Domenica 3  dicembre, festa di San Francesco Saverio, Patrono delle Missioni, avrÃ  luogo la Chiusura del V Centenario della sua nascita. Come ha affermato Mons. Fernando SebastiÃ¡n, Arcivescovo di Pamplona, "San Francesco Save...
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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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Spain launches a process of granting legal amnesty to up to 800,000 undocumented immigrants.
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MADRID, Spain, DEC. 15, 2004 ( Zenit.org ).- Fernando Rielo Pardo, founder of the Idente Missionaries, was remembered as "an apostle, a teacher, a humanist." Rielo died Dec.