Showing more of his sprightly personality and his priorities, Pope Francis sped two of his predecessors toward sainthood on Friday: John Paul II, who guided the Roman Catholic Church during the end of the Cold War, and John XXIII, who assembled the liberalizing Second Vatican Council in the 1960s.
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Enrique Martinez Associated Press Floribeth Mora of Costa Rica looks at a bust of Pope John Paul II at the archbishop's office in San Jose, Costa Rica, while describing how she was cured of a terminal cerebral aneurysm after praying to John Paul on the day of his beatification.
