The powers that are not expressly given to the federal government by the Constitution are reserved to the states or the people. Also known as reserved powers amendment or states' rights amendment.
Blessed Popes John XXIII and John Paul II will be canonized on April 27, 2014, Divine Mercy Sunday, the Vatican has officially confirmed.
Pope opens Vatican II. Pope John XXIII convenes an ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Churchâthe first in 92 years. In summoning the ecumenical councilâa general meeting of the bishops of the churchâthe pope hoped to bring spiritual rebirth to Catholicism and cultivate greater unity with the other branches of Christianity.