Pope Francis also canonized Pope Paul VI, who is credited with continuing the work begun by Pope John XXIII and bringing the church into the modern era with a series of reforms wrought from the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. Pope Francis presided over a canonization ceremony in St. Peter's Square in Rome on Sunday that involved two of the most important and contested figures of the 20th-century Catholic Church: Pope Paul VI and martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero. He also used a cloak, staff and chalice belonging to Pope Paul VI. In an interview, Paglia said that Pope John Paul II had come to understand Romero’s message. “We have to reclaim Romero, he is ours, he belongs to the church,” he recalled John Paul II saying.

Source: thestar October 14, 2018 23:03 UTC