Vatican City, Feb 17, 2018 / 08:53 am
During his annual Lenten meeting with the priests of Rome last week, Pope Francis confirmed that Blessed Pope Paul VI will be made a saint sometime this year.
"Paul VI will be a saint this year," the Pope said Feb. 15, at the end of a long question and answer session with priests of Rome. The text of the private meeting was published by the Vatican Feb. 17.
During the meeting, Francis gave lengthy answers to four questions from priests. Afterward, texts containing meditations by Pope Paul VI, a gift from the Pope, were handed out to each of the priests. "I saw it and I loved it," Francis said about the book.
"There are two [recent] Bishops of Rome already saints," he continued, referring to St. John XXIII and St. John Paul II, who were canonized together in April 2014.