At Tuesday's ceremony, he will beatify two members of the clergy who died in the 1920s.

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Was this really the time to beatify a pope who had mishandled such a high-profile case of sex abuse?

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More than two million Poles are expected to celebrate the Mass, at which the Pope will beatify four people, including former Warsaw archbishop Zygmunt Felinski, who died in 1895.

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In Malta, the pope will beatify Father George Preca, who founded the Society of Christian Doctrine in 1907 to evangelise a population which, although Catholic, based its beliefs just on popular devotion.

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On September 19th, Pope Benedict is due to beatify Newman (who converted to Rome and became a cardinal) at a mass in Birmingham: the ceremony is meant to be the highlight of his visit.

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But the Vatican does not accept Pius XII was culpable of assenting to the Holocaust, and - even if it did - it would be impossible to cast blame on a pope whom the current pope has begun moves to beatify.

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