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June 6, 2016

Jesus restores life through compassion, not magic, pope says

A woman waves a flag prior to the canonization Mass for two new saints celebrated by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 5. Those canonized were St. Stanislaus Papczynski of Poland, founder of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception, and St. Mary Elizabeth Hesselblad of Sweden, who refounded the Bridgettine order that had died out in Sweden after the Protestant Reformation.

VATICAN CITY – Even in the midst of suffering and death, Christians can become witnesses of the Resurrection and the power of God's compassion, Pope Francis said as he proclaimed two new saints. 

Published in Faith