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Two local bishops offered prayers for victims after a shooting left one person dead and more than 20 people injured at the conclusion of the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade.

The Knights of Columbus are calling for nine days of prayer to end the bloodshed as Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine reaches the two-year mark.

Between 2009 and 2019, the rate of adolescent depression nearly doubled, increasing from 8.1% to 15.8%, according to a 2021 analysis of National Survey on Drug User and Health studies during that decade.

Ireland’s most-senior churchman has hailed an agreement that sees a Catholic take the top political job in Northern Ireland for the first time in its history as an “opportunity for a fresh start and a new beginning.”

The Synod on Synodality is primarily a process for becoming a better church. The synod is needed, Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory said, “because, frankly, there have been times when the church in our modern day has not been truthful, welcoming, loving and merciful.”

A global network begun by women religious in the 1990s to assist victims and fight sex trafficking laid the groundwork for young people in Rome to film a promotional video promoting awareness.

Photos featured this week include the aftermath of wildfires in Chile, preparations for the election in Pakistan and a celebration of Black History Month in the Archdiocese of New York.

Featured photos this week include Pope Francis meeting with filmmaker and director Martin Scorsese, a farming protest in France  and a St. Brigid relic in Ireland.