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2 'Towering Figures' of Catholicism Are Now Saints

Francis canonizes Archbishop Oscar Romero, Pope Paul VI

(Newser) - Pope Francis on Sunday praised two of the towering figures of the 20th-century Catholic Church as prophets who shunned wealth and looked out for the poor as he canonized the modernizing Pope Paul VI and martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero. Francis declared the two men saints at a Mass in...

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