Pope Beatifies Korean Martyrs

Pope Francis has celebrated a huge open-air Mass in the center of Seoul to beatify 124 Korean martyrs who were killed in the 18th and 19th centuries for refusing to renounce Christianity. Beatification is the last step before sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church. In his homily Saturday before a crowd of hundreds of thousands at Seoul's Gwanghwamun Gate, Francis once again denounced the growing gap between the rich and poor.  It was a theme the pope has been repeating since...

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