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                    [Title] => Pope’s crypt to open to tourists next week
                    [Summary] => ROME (AFP) — The crypt containing the tomb of John Paul II will open to pilgrims and tourists early next week as the Vatican heads into an interregnum in the wake of the late pope’s epic funeral.


St. Peter’s Basilica, where hundreds of thousands of mourners filed past the Pope’s body as it lay in state last week, reopened to tourists for the first time in five days on Saturday.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 273506 [Title] => Only next pope can decide sainthood for John Paul [Summary] => VATICAN CITY (AFP) — Only the next pope can decide whether John Paul II should be made a saint, the Vatican said Satuday, as the Holy See continued a period of mourning for the late pope and Rome began returning to normal after the huge influx of mourners after his death.

Cardinals also imposed a media ban to help them concentrate on the task of choosing the next pope, Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said.
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It quoted Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz as relating how an American who was seriously ill received communion from the pope, and was cured.

The incident happened in 1998, but Dziwisz, who was John Paul II’s closest confidant for 40 years, spoke of the incident three years ago to reporters, who revealed it Sunday.
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"It is winter in Rome in January and when he comes to Asia, it will be tropical. (This) would be a very difficult adjustment for an elderly man like the Holy Father," Manila Auxiliary Bishop Socrates Villegas, spokesman for Manila Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin, said.
[DatePublished] => 2002-08-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1735838 [AuthorName] => Sandy Araneta [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 90118 [Title] => CBCP sad over ‘sex’ report [Summary] => "Very, very sad report."

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) expressed sadness yesterday over reports that the Vatican has discussed at top levels a sex scandal involving priests and nuns.

"The whole Church — priests, bishops, pope, lay people — have to face this problem together," said CBCP president Archbishop Orlando Quevedo in a press briefing. "We say sorry...(we) express great sorrow."
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