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Archbishop Georg Gänswein celebrates a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 31, 2023, to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the death of Pope Benedict XVI. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Jan 2, 2024 / 11:48 am (CNA). Friends, scholars, and former colleagues of Pope Benedict XVI gathered in the Campo Santo Teutonico in…

Image of “Santa Muerte,” or “St. Death.” / Credit: David Ramos/ACI Prensa ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 2, 2024 / 12:10 pm (CNA). Father Andrés Esteban López Ruiz, a member of the College of Exorcists of the Primatial Archdiocese of Mexico, recently warned about the risks of the cult of “Santa Muerte” or “St. Death,” pointing…

Firefighters inspect collapsed wooden houses in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Jan. 2, 2024, a day after a major 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck the Noto region in Ishikawa Prefecture. / Credit: KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Jan 2, 2024 / 12:56 pm (CNA). Pope Francis was “deeply saddened” to learn of a devastating earthquake that…

Hong Kong media tycoon and Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai. / Credit: Napa Institute CNA Staff, Jan 2, 2024 / 11:10 am (CNA). Jimmy Lai, the embattled Hong Kong Catholic democracy activist, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to all charges leveled against him in his national security trial there.  Lai, the Chinese-born founder of the…