Photos featured this week include French Cardinal Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States, formally taking possession of his titular church, the Church of St. Benedict Outside St. Paul’s Gate, Day of the Dead celebrations in Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico and more.
The reform projects launched by Pope Francis — reforming not just institutions like the Roman Curia, but attitudes and pastoral approaches — will not be reversed, even though some may take different forms in the future, said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state.
A U.S. archbishop has denounced the Biden administration’s decision to resume deportations of Haitian migrants, given the rampant violence and instability in Haiti.
The staging of spectacles outside of places of worship escalates the repression against Catholics in Nicaragua. This month, a boxing ring was set up in the courtyard of the León cathedral.
The problem of homeless camping is nationwide, and on April 22 the Supreme Court heard a case concerning the constitutionality of local laws that ban public camping and their impact on people who are homeless.
Nigeria has remained a source, transit and destination country for human trafficking in sub-Saharan Africa, but a network of Catholic Sisters of St. Louis at the Bakhita Empowerment center, a safehouse in Lagos, is determined to change that.
Pope Francis asked Catholics to get ready for the jubilee journey with a Year of Prayer and now, a few months after the year was officially announced, a kind of prayer prep-school is in session.
Supreme Knight Patrick E. Kelly said the need for lay Catholics to take part in the church’s evangelization is “especially urgent in our time” and is one of the three main duties that laypeople have in carrying out the Church’s mission.
