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Oscar likes to spread the bounty, and three gongs might be considered tantamount to canonisation.
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For Jesuit priests like Serjio Cobo, who heads a Catholic agency that works in Chiapas, the canonisation of Juan Diego is merely a distraction from the real problems the church faces.
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Larry Uzzell, Moscow correspondent for the religious-freedom monitoring organisation, the Keston Institute, said before the canonisation that the Church was under a lot of pressure to elevate the family to the sainthood.
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