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Rome, Italy, Apr 16, 2020 / 09:06 am (CNA).- Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI celebrated his 93rd birthday Thursday at his Vatican residence during Italy’s coronavirus lockdown.

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Juan Luis Tron (second from left) and Maria Magdalene Baca (second from right) together with other young people from the Regnum Christi movement wait outside St. Peter’s Basilica on Jan. 2, 2023, to pay their respects to the late Pope Benedict XVI, who died Dec. 31, 2022. / Hannah Brockhaus / CNA

Vatican City, Jan 2, 2023 / 11:00 am (CNA).

Approximately 40,000 people visited Benedict XVI in the first five hours he was lying in state on Monday, according to the Vatican gendarmes.

Catholics have traveled to the Vatican from both near and far to see the late pope for the last time and to pray for his eternal repose.

The Herrera family traveled from Madrid, Spain, after learning that Benedict XVI had died on Dec. 31. They arrived in Rome late on Jan. 1 and joined the line of mourners the next morning.

Maria Jimenez told CNA she and her husband and four children, ages 19–25, “came especially to see the pope, to pray for him and to see him. To say goodbye, too.”

“We love Benedict,” she said, adding that she thinks he will one day be a saint.

Here are a few of the people who said goodbye to Benedict on Jan. 2:

Giancarlo Rossi, who lives in Rome, told CNA he got in line to enter St. Peter’s Basilica at 7:45 a.m.

He prayed the rosary while he waited to pay his final respects to Benedict.

“I met him a few times — I am from here. And so I came to greet the pope for the last time,” he told CNA. “And I am praying for him. I offered my Mass for him and I will ask for a plenary indulgence for him, as well.”

Gabriella Fedele, also from Rome, said she felt that Benedict XVI was a great and humble leader of the Church.

She told CNA his death is “a great sorrow, because a light is extinguished on this earth, but yet one is lit up in heaven.”

Sister Angel Bilegu, a consecrated virgin in the Diocese of Rome, waited in line from before sunrise to see the pope emeritus, whose election as pope she remembers.

“I appreciated his magisterium a lot,” she said. “He was a pastor and a theologian, who really did theology ‘on his knees.’”

“I really liked him a lot and so I had to come to say goodbye.”

Carmen Floriani and her husband, Hans Schudel, came to Rome with their three young children from Switzerland. Schudel waited in line from 6 a.m., while Floriani joined with their children — ages 5 months, 3, and 5 years — later in the morning.

Floriani, who is originally from Trento in the far northern part of Italy, told CNA her family came to see Benedict XVI “because he was our pope for some years,” but also because she and her husband, married six years, have a special connection to the Bavarian pope.

“The witness at our marriage is [former Cardinal] Ratzinger’s relative,” she said. “I studied in Munich, in Bavaria, and there I met the only members of his family still there. This is another reason for coming to say goodbye to him.”

A group of teens, members of the international lay movement Regnum Christi, also lined up early on Monday morning.

They said they were in Rome from Mexico, Spain, Germany, Philippines, and Italy for a gathering of 120 members of the movement.

Maria Magdalena Baca, 17, said: “We are pretty young and maybe we don’t remember much of him as pope. But I remember when he came to Mexico and my parents talked to me about him as a pope.”

“I believe that we should be thankful, too,for his life,” 18-year-old Juan Luis Tron, from Mexico City, told CNA. “He was a pope that I admired so much. We have been talking about his life and many consecrated [women of Regnum Christi] and priests [of the Legionaries of Christ] have said, even though it’s sad, the notice that he has passed away, we should be thankful for his life and for all the things he built in the Church.”

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Santiago, Chile, Apr 13, 2018 / 11:00 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A renewal plan for the Church in Chile will be submitted to Pope Francis by Chilean bishops when they gather next month at the Vatican, the president of the Chilean bishops’ conference said.
 
Bishop Santiago Silva Retamales spoke April 13 with Radio Cooperativa, outlining the steps Chilean bishops are ready to take in order to heal the scandal caused by the appointment of Bishop Juan Barros to Osorno.
 
Bishop Barros has a long association with Fr. Fernando Karadima, who was found guilty of multiple sex abuses. Barros was eventually accused of participating in Karadima’s abusive conduct, and of helping to cover it up.
 
Though Barros has maintained his innocence, his 2015 appointment to the Diocese of Osorno aggrieved victims, and has been controversial since it was announced.
 
Despite victims expressing their resentment, the Vatican initially defended the appointment, and Pope Francis sparked controversy by calling accusations against Barros “calumny” during his most recent trip to Chile. However, the pope sent Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna to Chile to investigate the situation, and the archbishop subsequently filed a report of 2,300 pages.
 
After reading the report, Francis sent a letter April 8 to the bishops of Chile, admitting he made “serious mistakes” in handling the crisis, and summoning the Chilean bishops to Rome.
 
The meeting between the Chilean bishops and the pope has not been officially scheduled yet; it is expected to take place during the third week of May.
 
In his interview with Radio Cooperativa, Bishop Silva stressed that the “bishops of Chile will likely propose a plan for the renewal of the Chilean Church.”
 
He added that “the Church must take over the situation, with much responsibility, in order to boldly look for solution to get out of the crisis and go forward.”

Bishop Silva also said that “It’s possible that the pope will ask some [bishops] to leave their diocese … there must be a drastic solution, strong and decisive, that is for certain.”
 
Bishop Silva also remarked that Chilean bishops “have always properly said to the Holy Father what they ought to say,” thus rejecting the claim that they had not fully reported the situation to Rome. The pope’s April 8 letter said that he had not always been able to access “truthful and balanced information” on the issue.
 
When the pope’s letter was published, Bishop Silva issued a statement saying that the country’s bishops “had not done what was needed,” and asked “forgiveness of those who have been harmed.”

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