When Pope Francis canonizes Popes John XXIII and John Paul II on Sunday April 27 Catholics across the spectrum will have reason to cheer Liberals credit John with opening the church to the modern world in the 1960s and conservatives hail John Paul as reasserting orthodoxy after too many innovati

It is a poignant coincidence that Popes John XXIII and John Paul II will be canonized as Catholic saints on the eve of Yom Hashoah the international day of Holocaust remembrance observed in Israel and by Jews around the world These two popes rsquo personal narratives are inseparable from the Holoc

Popes John XXIII and John Paul II will be declared saints on Sunday April 27 the first-ever double papal canonization Here 39 s a quick guide to making saints in the Roman Catholic Church nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp There are currently about 10 000 saints on the church 39 s official roster The

Reports that Pope Francis told an Argentine woman civilly married to a divorced man that she can receive Communion quot cannot be confirmed as reliable quot said Jesuit Father Federico the Vatican spokesman Julio Sabetta 50 wrote on his Facebook page that Pope Francis phoned his wife Jacqueli

I have been mulling over the dialogue in Robert Frost 39 s classic poem nbsp ldquo Mending rdquo In it a neighbor of the nbsp narrator of the poem is shoring up a broken wall His motto rings out quot Good fences make good neighbors quot But the poem 39 s narrator has his doubts quot So

Aklima and I are the same age 20 years old Yet our lives lived on opposite sides of the world have been drastically different In August of 2008 when I was 14 I began attending a Jesuit high school in Western New York with prospects of a good education and a bright future When she was 14 Ak