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That benedict xvi on this day might expect? >> well, the pattern has to be to connenize every pope. one of the popes that we leapfrogged over was pope john xxiii whomd be a much less controversial figure at this point in time. but there have been lots of folks that havent been canonized. it shouldnt simply be a pattern that if youre a pope, you shouldnt be a saint. in fact, the history of the papacy would suggest thats not a pattern. doing this so quickly is a statement on his papacy. >> thomas,...

Beatified. it couldnt have happened to a better person. i hope by the time hes actually turned into a saint stripes some people. maybe theyll gain some many as to what he actually did when he was alive and the good that he did for the world. >> were going to return now to live coverage of the beatification mass under way in st. peters square in the vatican city. this is benedict xvi proclaiming the homily. tell us what they are saying. >> i have personal, i think its probably going to get more p...

That is inevitable and still to come. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> lets bring you live pictures once again of the ceremony under way, john paul ii, 264th pope of the roman catholic church is beatified, proclaimed as a blessant servant of god. >> just a short moment ago, his tapestry is unveiled before the enormous crowd gathered there, benedict xvi having read the proclamation of his beatification. and there, once again, an image that will stay with us, a relic, a vial of h...

Abuse crisis unfolded towards the end of his painsy. they would go on to say, however, that he did kick start a process of reform in 2001 that has come to full flower under his successor, benedict xvi. >> its a tricky distinction. the vatican always said when a pope is beatified, its not the same thing as ratifying everything from his papacy. they made it clear this is not an endorsement of the jewish

Christ is the redeemer of man. >> benedict xvi, the beatification mass of john paul ii, six years after his death. john paul ii is proclaimed blessed by the hope and by the church. one step closer to a sainthood. youre watching live pictures now from rome, a crowd of more than a million people crowding and spilling out of st. peters square. so many people, the biggest crowd we have seen there since john paul iis death. for catholics around the world, for people who have been so fired up by this ...

So we ask the saints to pray for us. i would say to my mom, ma, say a prayer for me today. and irng shes in the presence of got displays with me. in a send, we but now officially recognize the power of saints. beatification traditionally has meant that the vocation is more localized to a particular dioceses, so in this case the dioceses of krakow. but those distinctions with the kind of communication media we have now and so on are basically broken down. so in a sense, to be beatified, to be can...

I dont think it wag anything like that. i think it was a mutual admiration that involved sort of the thought process and so the incident luktal says -- spirit matters that both men shared, i think. >> if youre joining us, we are watching live from st. peters square the beatification mass honoring, proclaiming john paul ii as a blessed servant of god. it was six years ago that john paul passed away and his successor benedict xvi took the altar and in that time, the math to sainthood has been open...

The last couple of days and thats the speed with which this has taken place. benedict xvi said i wanted the beatification to move forward with reasonable haste. it came quickly because this was what was pleasing to the board, john paul the ii is blessed. once he said that, john paul broke out into a cheer. probably for this mass of beatification. >> as we watch this, im reminded of the day six years ago when we first saw pope benedict xvi. he said then some very disturbing things about pope john...

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If you are just watching us, we have been watching the ceremony of john paul ii being beatified. we saw the unveiling of his portrait, a portrait of john paul ii. i am struck, they chose a portrait from 1995, it shows him in his vigor in the years of his strength before so much of his health was taken from him by parkins parkinsons before age robbed him of much of his physical vigor. his remains were seen there where they will lie so that the million or so people that gathered in rome and more p...