Canadian saints example of missionary good BY CAROL GLATZ, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE October 17, 2014 VATICAN CITY - At a Mass of thanksgiving for the canonization of Canada’s two newest saints, Pope Francis said missionaries do enormous good for the Church by bringing God’s love to the far corners of the Earth and by keeping the Church healthy and fruitful. Missionaries, who leave their homes and even risk their lives, “have done immense good for the Church, because once the Church stops moving and becomes closed up inside herself, she gets ill, she can be corrupted, either by sin or that false knowledge separated from God that is worldly secularism,” he said in a homily Oct. 12. The Pope presided over a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica as a celebration for the canonizations of Sts. Marie de l’Incarnation and Francois de Laval, two 17th-century French missionaries who were pioneers of the Catholic Church in Canada. catholicregister.org/faith/faith-news/item/19009-canadian-saints-example-of-missionary-good
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