While Rome may have been crowded last weekend for the Easter ceremonies with 150,000 people in St Peter's Square for Easter Sunday Mass with Pope Francis, the expectation is that around a million pilgrims will be drawn to the Eternal City for next weekend as Pope Francis will solomnely declare that his predecessors Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II are among the saints. The coverage online is blanket but we will try to give you a flavour of some of the articles online. However if you want to browse yourself some of the best coverage is from the following sites:
- Salt + Light - website and Facebook page
- Vatican Radio - English Section Facebook Page
- Vatican Radio
- Word on Fire
- Rome Reports - we are big fans of Rome Reports on this blog and going back over the last three weeks RR have had a series of short videos on different aspects of the lives of both JXXIII and JP2; well worth a look.
- Irish Bishops Conference facebook page
- Catholic News Agency
- Catholic News Service
Starting off the round up of articles, Fr James Martin SJ poses the question - What is a saint?
Staying a bit more closer to home:
Over at America magazine, Loyola press have given permission for Fr James Martin's chapter on John XXIII from his book "My Life with the Saints" (a book that comes with a five star recommendation from the SS102fm team) to be published - Vicar of Christ.
St. John Paul II: The 20th Century’s Greatest Dissident
Blessed John XXIII: pope of hearts (Vatican Radio)
John Paul II: pope from a far away country (Vatican Radio)
Blessed John Paul II's Polish roots: courage and moral strength (Vatican Radio)
John XXIII: The accidental saint
The virtues of John XXIII
What the canonizations of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II tell us
SS102fm's previous blogs about these two saints HERE and HERE
Everything you need to know about popes and saints
Joint canonization encourages politicized Catholics to bridge divides
New papal saints have flaws as well as greatness
ICBC has a summary page of the canonisation process and the two new saints
Freedom Lived Nobly: The Social Magisterium of John Paul II
Holy Popes! Significance of the Canonization of John XXIII & John Paul II
Blessed John XXIII: Cardinal Loris Capovilla and the canonisation - Cardinal Loris Capovilla was for many years the personal secretary of John XXIII and recently wrote how this twentieth century Pope rather than arouse in us feelings of nostalgia should encourage us to look towards the future..
Becoming saints: Two popes who revolutionized Jewish-Catholic relations
UPDATE No. 2
The canonisation celebrations - Irish Catholic
Men of our time, for our time - Irish Catholic
The Pope and I: Remembering John XXIII (Thinking Faith)
Pope John Paul II: Thinking outside the Church (Thinking Faith)
Discussions on the Pontificate of Blessed John Paul II (Dominicans Interactive)
UPDATE No. 4
John Paul II: tainted saint? - Irish Times
Proposer defends swift canonisation process of Pope John Paul II - Irish Times
The debate over canonizing two popes - John Thavis
John XXIII and John Paul II, ‘twin bookends’ of Vatican II - Catholic Comment
It is the person who is canonized, not every pontifical choice he made - Vatican Insider
The Process of Beatification & Canonization
Vatican issues official prayers to Saints John XXIII & John Paul II
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