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Slaloming down the slopes in billowing cassocks in the tracks of their late compatriot Pope John Paul II, Polish priests vie for the "papal cup" prize in the annual clergy ski championships.Each year ski-mad priests flock to Poland's southern Beskid Slaski mountain ...
More than two million pilgrims are expected to throng the streets of Rome for the beatification ceremony of John Paul II on May 1, leaving travel agencies desperate for accommodation and hotel prices soaring.The Vatican expects as many as two and a ...
The late pope John Paul II is on the fast track to sainthood and will be beatified on May 1, the Vatican said Friday, to the joy of supporters and alarm of clerical abuse victims.Pope Benedict XVI's decision to beatify the Polish-born ...
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The late Pope John Paul II was moved a major step closer to sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church on Friday when his successor approved a decree attributing a miracle to him.The move by Pope Benedict means that ...
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Former Pope John Paul II will move a step closer to sainthood this week when his successor Pope Benedict approves the case for his beatification, Vatican sources said Wednesday.In "a few days" the Vatican's Prefect for the Causes ...
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict said on Saturday he will host a summit of world religious leaders in the city of Assisi in October to discuss how they can promote world peace.The meeting will take place on the 25th anniversary of ...
In what has become an annual near-Thanksgiving event, thousands convened in a southern California stadium to pray for, celebrate, and remember the martyrs who were canonized by Pope John Paul. For many of Orange County's 60,000 Vietnamese Catholics, the annual commemoration is ...
I write from a breathtakingly beautiful part of the United States of America, a little town called Snoqualmie Pass, located in the State of Washington, in the Pacific Northwest. It reminds me of the beautiful line from the Hebrew Prophet Isaiah, "Come ...
Pope Benedict XVI to visit Croatia, a Catholic bastion in the Balkans, on June 4-5The Croatian Bishops' Conference says pope Benedict XVI will visit Croatia for the first time on June 4-5.Benedict's predecessor, John Paul II, visited Croatia — a Roman Catholic ...
She wrote an article called "The Sweet Death of Karol Wojtyla" which was published in September 2007 in the bi-monthly Italian magazine MicroMega . The article argues that the death of Pope John Paul II in 2005 was an act of euthanasia ...
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