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April 25, 2014

Calling Vatican II was an act of faith

Pope John XXIII leads the opening session of the Second Vatican Council in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 11, 1962. Blessed John XXIII felt the council was necessary to bring the Church into the modern world.

VATICAN CITY - Blessed John XXIII called the Second Vatican Council in the conviction that it was necessary for the Catholic Church, yet without pre-conceived ideas of what it would accomplish, said Vatican II participants who recalled the event half a century later.

Published in Papal Canonizations
April 25, 2014

Two popes, two saints

Two popes, two saints

Saints are not saints because they fit some precast mould of perfection. The Church has proclaimed at least 20,000 saints over its two millennia and no two of them are the same.

Published in Papal Canonizations
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