December 2009
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Pope Benedict XVI has declared John Paul II, Pius XII, and six others as having had lives of “heroic virtue.” They are now all Venerable.
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The Gloria is a hymn that is said or sung on Sundays outside Advent and Lent, on solemnities and feasts, and in solemn local celebrations.
Pope Benedict XV called for a Christmas Truce during WWI, “that the guns may fall silent at least upon the night the angels sang.”
Pope Benedict XV’s Christmas Truce was rejected by leaders, but actually followed by some soldiers on the ground: http://tinyurl.com/bymzy