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EndNotes archive for April 27, 2014

SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 2014


Pope Francis delivers his blessing during a solemn canonization ceremony in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 27, 2014. Pope Francis has declared his two predecessors John XXIII and John Paul II saints in an unprecedented canonization ceremony made even more historic by the presence of retired Pope Benedict XVI. (Alessandra Tarantino / Associated Press)

The saints go marching in…

Pope Francis I presided over the first joint canonization of two former popes today in Vatican City’s St. Peter’s Basilica. Pope John XXIII brought the Catholic Church into the present era in the early 1960s with the Vatican II Council. The Mass celebrated once in…

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