Pope to Canonize Seven New Saints
ALLEN: Live video here from the Vatican on an historic morning. Pope Francis officially recognizing seven men and women as saints. A huge crowd, as you can see, has gathered at St. Peter's Square for the ceremony, including many from El Salvador. One of the new saints is Archbishop Oscar Romero. He was killed in 1980 after speaking out against social injustice in El Salvador. Also canonized, Pope Paul VI. He helped usher the church into the modern world. CNN Vatican correspondent Delia Gallagher joins us now from our bureau in Rome to tell us more about the people being honored today. Hello, Delia.</s>DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN VATICAN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Natalie. That's right. It's a day of celebration here at the Vatican. The pope has already declared the seven new saints. Among them are two women. They were founders of religious orders in Germany and in Spain. Also a young boy from Naples, a 19-year old who died of bone cancer. And Pope Francis said he was an example to young people of humility and courage. Perhaps the two most well known, Pope Paul VI, he was pope from 1963 to 1978, a time of great change in the Catholic Church with Vatican 2, he ushered in a lot of those changes and had to oversee bringing in the Catholic Church into the modern world. They say Pope Francis has long had a great devotion to this pope. He was one of the first popes to begin traveling outside of Italy. He traveled to the holy land and to the United Nations at the time of the Vietnam War, speaking out against war there. So he is somebody who has been very important for Pope Francis. And Archbishop Romero from El Salvador. He was assassinated while he was saying mass in March of 1980. Pope Francis is actually wearing the blood-stained belt that Oscar Romero was wearing on the day that he was killed. He was a voice for the poor and oppressed. So you can imagine, for Pope Francis, another person to hold up as a martyr and as a hero for our times, Natalie. []</s>GALLAGHER: About 70,000 people, as you say, many of them waited out in the early morning of the hours here to come into the square. Queen Sophia is here from Spain, many dignitaries. The president of Italy, the president of El Salvador, Chile. You can imagine, for the Latin American countries, the day that Oscar Romero is made a saint, particularly for El Salvador, is an important day.</s>ALLEN: Absolutely and a beautiful morning there for it all. Thank you, Delia Gallagher, for us in Rome. Finally this hour, the rapper, Kanye West, you might recall, visited President Trump in the Oval Office this week. And just a few hours ago on the comedy show "Saturday Night Live," actor Alec Baldwin reprised his impersonation of Mr. Trump and he brought along with him. Take a look.</s>ALEC BALDWIN, ACTOR, "DONALD TRUMP": I'm proud to welcome Kanye West. Yeezus, Yandhi, Yaddam Yussein, an amazing guy. Thank you for coming, Kanye.</s>CHRIS REDD, ACTOR, "KANYE WEST": I'm a prisoner in a different dimension. Have I lost anyone so far? OK. So I'm going to talk about trapdoors. Like the 13th Amendment is a trapdoor. And if you are installing a floor, AKA, the Constitution, why would you build a trapdoor when you could end up with the Unabomber? "</s>TRUMP: " Oh, this guy might be cuckoo.</s>ALLEN: A little bit for you. That will do it for us. Thank you for watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Natalie Allen. For U.S. viewers, "NEW DAY" is next. For everyone else, stay with us for --</s>ALLEN: -- "AFRICAN VOICES."