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Italian Cardinal Ennio Antonelli, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, speaks during the VI World Meeting of Families in Mexico City, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009. The meeting is organized by the Catholic Church and is being held in Mexico City from Jan. 14 to 18. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

Cardinal: Divorced, remarried Catholics need support for conversion, not changes on communion

Catholic News Agency

Pope John Paul II (center, in red boots) prays with a group of skiers before heading down a slope in this 1984 file photo. (CNS photo from the Vatican) (Feb. 10, 2005)

William Wilberforce: The power of truth in the face of lies: Pope John Paul II

By Stephen P. White

German Chancellor Angela Merkel shakes hands with children symbolizing so-called Mauerspechte (wall peckers - people who chipped the wall with hammers) along remains of the Berlin Wall at the Berlin Wall memorial site at Bernauer Strasse in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2014. Twenty-five years ago - on Nov. 9, 1989 - the East-German government lifted travel restrictions and thousands of East Berliners had pushed their way past perplexed border guards to celebrate freedom with their brethren in the West. (AP Photo/Steffi Loos)

Ruins of Berlin Wall whisper 25 years later

By Ann Schneible - Catholic News Agency

Pope Francis catches an Italian flag thrown by a pilgrim, at the end of the beatification ceremony of Pope Paul VI, and a mass celebrated for the closing of of a two-week synod on family issues, in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2014. Pope Francis on Sunday beatified Pope Paul VI, concluding the remarkable meeting of bishops debating family issues that drew parallels to the tumultuous reforms of the Second Vatican Council which Paul oversaw and implemented. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis beatifies Paul VI at remarkable synod’s end

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press