Nation/World

Photos featured this week include things happening in our diocese, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, as well as around the world.

Home to the landmark Edmund Pettus Bridge and other Civil Rights era memories, Alabama’s Selma also is home to another effort to strengthen African-American family-owned farms and communities across the Deep South that rely on them: the Edmundite Missions’ Black Farmers Initiative.

Orbiting the sun nearly 1 million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope is reshaping the way scientists understand the universe and its origins, a number of astronomers said at a Vatican-sponsored meeting.

If legislation for people diagnosed with a terminal condition passes the Minnesota Legislature and opens the door to potential expansion to include those with disabilities, assisted suicide could one day be an option that could be a tragedy for many.

Entering the third year of war several church institutions wrapped their aid effort in “two years of war” reports, showing that millions of people have been saved thanks to the Catholic Church. A million people — whether Ukrainian refugees in Poland or those inside Ukraine — have been helped by Caritas Poland.

Photos featured this week include a cow in St. Peter’s Square, Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez at a Religious Education Congress and a vigil in memory of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Bernini’s 100-foot-tall baldachin In St. Perter’s Basilica will be completely covered by metal scaffolding before Easter to allow a team of restorers to clean and repair the masterpiece.

The Doomsday Clock — the theoretical timepiece that measures humanity’s march toward nuclear annihilation when it strikes midnight — continues to dismally tick forward, currently marking 90 seconds until Armageddon.