VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV canonized Venezuela’s beloved “doctor of the poor” on Sunday before tens of thousands of people. This event offers the South American nation its first saint and a reason to celebrate amid a yearslong economic crisis and new tensions with the United States.
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