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GANSEVOORT, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Being present with family is what the holidays are all about. Sometimes though, not everyone is able to be present, like 20-year old Abby Jenks of Ganesvoort.

So her family got creative with a celebration right at home for their angel. “It is about Abby for us but it can also be about anyone who needs healing,” says mother Mary Jenks, “anyone who wants to light a candle can come and remember their own loved one. I think it just provides that healing aspect for everyone here and the community as well.” 

(The Hill) – More than 40 passengers aboard a Royal Caribbean Symphony of the Seas cruise ship have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, USA Today reported. The cruise line confirmed that 44 out of 6,074 passengers and crew members had tested positive for COVID-19 on the cruise, which ended in Miami on Saturday. 

Royal Caribbean spokeswoman Lyan Sierra-Caro said the cruise line also notified passengers that an individual on the ship tested positive for the omicron variant. 

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis celebrates his 85th birthday on Friday, a milestone made even more remarkable given the coronavirus pandemic, his summertime intestinal surgery, and the weight of history: His predecessor retired at this age and the last pope to have lived any longer was Leo XIII over a century ago.

Yet Francis is going strong, recently concluding a whirlwind trip to Cyprus and Greece after his pandemic-defying jaunts this year to Iraq, Slovakia and Hungary. He has set in motion an unprecedented two-year consultation of rank-and-file Catholics on making the church more attuned to the laity and shows no sign of slowing down on his campaign to make the post-COVID world a more environmentally sustainable, economically just, and fraternal place where the poor are prioritized.