(WARREN, MI) Michigan Maronite Catholics celebrated the historic dual canonization during both morning liturgies on Sunday. Father Alfred Badawi mentioned the momentous moment several times throughout the liturgy.
Pope Francis declared Popes John XXIII and John Paul II saints before some 800,000 people in an unprecedented ceremony made even more historic by the presence of emeritus Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter’s Square.
Never before have a reigning pope and a retired pope celebrated Mass together in public, much less at an event honoring two of their most famous predecessors.
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