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Pope Leo XIV on Sunday created seven new saints -- among them a onetime Satanic priest who rediscovered his Christian faith.

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"All people are born as originals but many die as photocopies," soon-to-be saint Carlo Acutis once said.

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It took the recent canonization of two popes, John XXIII and Pope John Paul II, for Kapamilya Korina Sanchez (left) and Kapuso Mel Tiangco (right) to bury the hatchet.

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PINOY CROWD. A TV reporter was heard saying that the Filipinos formed the second largest crowd at the Vatican canonization rites next only to the Poles (from Poland), the countrymen of now Saint Pope John Paul II.

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His death triggered a massive outpouring of grief in Poland. His beatification, an explosion of pride and jubilation. But days before John Paul II is to be declared a saint, many of his countrymen are greeting the landmark with little more than a shrug.

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PINOY CROWD. A TV reporter was heard saying that the Filipinos formed the second largest crowd at the Vatican canonization rites next only to the Poles (from Poland), the countrymen of now Saint Pope John Paul II.

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