News analysis: Pope Francis exercises power of the keys.
-- Rome -- The big news out of the Vatican on Saturday was the announcement that Robert Schumann -- who, along with Konrad Adenauer and Alcide de Gasparri, is recognised as one of the founding fathers of modern European unity -- is on the path to canonisation, as his heroic virtues were recognised in a decree of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
The announcement of the resignation of two bishops, also on Saturday, was always likely to go unremarked, if unnoticed. But there are resignations and resignations, and these two were not without interest.
