Pope puts two of his predecessors on path to sainthood.(Nation)

From: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) | Date: September 4, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Pope John Paul II yesterday moved closer to sainthood two predecessors who stood for the traditional and liberal sides of the Catholic Church.

The Rome ceremony beatified Pius IX, who presided at the First Vatican Council in 1870, and John Paul XXIII, who opened the Second Vatican Council in 1962.

"Divine design has willed the shared beatification of these two popes who lived in very different historical contexts," John Paul said, taking care to defend the 19th-century pope as "much loved, but also hated and slandered."

Pius IX, the longest-reigning modern pope, ...

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