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FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2011 file photo, Cuba's Cardinal Jaime Ortega celebrates a Mass, in Havana. Cuba's Roman Catholic Church said Friday, July 26, 2019, the former archbishop of Havana who helped organize the first papal visit to communist Cuba has died. Ortega was 83. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano, File)

Cardinal Ortega, former archbishop of Havana, dies at 82

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘A Pope and a President’ by Paul Kengor

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Book jacket: "A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and The Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century"

BOOK REVIEW: Reagan, Pope John Paul II outsmart Soviet communism

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This is a Sunday, April 18, 2010 photo of The Wawel castle in Krakow, southern Poland. Pope Francis is coming to southern Poland from July 27-31 to meet with young people from around the globe who gather for the World Youth Day, which is being held July 25-31. Pope Francis will visit the castle during the visit. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Castles and death camps: Sites the pope will see in Poland

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One of hundreds of letters that Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, later Pope John Paul II sent to a Polish-American philosopher during the 32 years of joint work and friendship between the two, now kept at the National Library in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday, 16 Feb. 2016. The library bought hundreds of letters for a &#8220;seven-digit&#8221; amount in 2008 from the woman, the Polish-born American thinker Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, and is planning to have them published in the coming years. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Letters between John Paul II and a woman? Not so secret, actually

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Illustration on why the Pope should embrace Cuban political dissidents by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

GEORGE PHILLIPS: Advancing human rights in Cuba

By George Phillips

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

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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

Nuns hold up a poster with portraits of Pope John Paul II, left, and John XXIII, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Sunday, April 27, 2014. Pope Francis has declared his two predecessors John XXIII and John Paul II saints in an unprecedented canonization ceremony made even more historic by the presence of retired Pope Benedict XVI. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

TAUBE: Canonizing John XXIII and John Paul II

By Michael Taube

Two persons walk in front of pictures of Pope John XXIII, left, and Pope John Paul II in Guatemala City, Sunday, April 27, 2014. The canonization of Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII is drawing special attention in Latin America, reviving both warm memories of his frequent visits to the region and debate over his handling of sex-abuse scandals. (AP Photo/Luis Soto)

Obama praises new saints — Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

The shrine, formerly known as National Shrine of Blessed John Paul II, was renamed the Saint John Paul II National Shrine and unveiled during a Sunday ceremony. (KHALID NAJI-ALLAH/SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES)

Local ceremony honors canonization of John Paul II

By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times