Joyful Polish Catholics make travel plans for John Paul II’s beatification

WARSAW, Poland (CNS) Poland’s Catholics have reacted with joy to the announcement that Pope John Paul II will be beatified May 1, and many have made plans to travel to Rome. Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza daily newspaper reported Jan. 16 that all available rooms at Polish hostels in Rome were already booked for the beatification, which up to a million Poles plan to attend, according to a Jan. 15 survey by the Homo Homini opinion research agency.

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