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Friday. Eleven other crew members, including the captain, had been formally arrested earlier.
• All are accused of negligence and of failing to help passengers in need as the ferry Sewol sank April 16. The captain initially told passengers to stay in their rooms and took half an hour to issue an evacuation order, by which time the ship was tilting too severely for many people to get out.
• Ten days after the sinking, 187 bodies have been recovered and 115 people are believed to be missing, though the government-wide emergency task force has said the ship's passengers list could be inaccurate. Only 174 people survived, including 22 of the 29 crew members.
• The seven surviving crew members who have not been arrested or detained held non-marine jobs such as chef or steward, Yang said in a telephone interview from Mokpo, the southern city near the wreck site where prosecutors are based. A court hearing was held Saturday to determine whether formal arrest warrants will be issued against the four newly detained crew members.
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Francis deeply influenced by both saint popes: Owes papacy to JPII but style like John XXIII

• VATICAN CITY (AP) -- When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio almost became pope in 2005, he told a confidant that -- had he been elected -- he would have named himself after the pope he so admired: John XXIII.
• When he did become pope in 2013, his first public words echoed what John Paul II had said upon his election -- that cardinals had searched far, to the "ends of the Earth," to find a new leader.
• John XXIII and John Paul II, two of the 20th century's great spiritual leaders, changed the face of the Catholic Church and the papacy itself with their remarkable, and remarkably different, papacies. They also had a profound influence on Pope Francis, who will declare them both saints Sunday in history's first canonization of two popes.
• John, embraced by progressives, reigned from 1958-1963 and is credited primarily with having convened the Second Vatican Council, which brought the 2,000-year-old institution into modern times. During his 26 years as pope, John Paul ensured a more conservative implementation and interpretation of the council, while helping to bring down communism and energizing a new generation of Catholics.
• Just weeks after he was elected, Francis prayed at the tombs of both men -- an

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