‘Saints ... are witnesses as to how we should try to live’
Rome welcomes over 800,000 pilgrims for sainthood ceremony
Ignazio Marino expects events to cost city some €7m and says bill should be shared
Ceremony for John XXIII and John Paul II represents a balancing act
Authority is for building up others, never for their diminishment or humiliation
The late Polish pope and another former pontiff, John XXIII, will be canonised in Rome in a fortnight’s time. Many people, uncomfortable with John Paul’s ideologies and allegiances, are unhappy about the speed of his sainthood
Allegations against Legionaries of Christ founder ignored, documentary reveals
Former popes to be declared saints in Vatican next April
‘Normal procedures’ followed with two miracles attributed to John Paul II
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