Photos featured this week include the U.S. women’s soccer team, a Marian procession through the Chinatown and Lower East Side sections of New York City and Pope Francis sharing a moment with members of the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary.
Korbin Albert of the U.S. women’s soccer team is seen in action against Vitoria Yaya of Brazil in Paris Aug. 10, 2024, during the gold medal match for women’s soccer. The U.S. defeated Brazil 1-0. (OSV News photo/Benoit Tessier, Reuters)
New York Auxiliary Bishop Edmund J. Whalen and other clergy participate in a Marian procession through the Chinatown and Lower East Side sections of New York City Aug. 11, 2024. Transfiguration Parish in Chinatown annually hosts a special Sunday Mass and procession to mark the feast of the Assumption of Mary, which is traditionally observed Aug. 15. Father Roger Kwan, Transfiguration’s pastor, is seen walking next to Bishop Whalen. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
The casket of Alice da Silva Aguiar arrives for her funeral Mass at St Patrick’s Catholic Church in Southport, England, Aug. 11, 2024. The 9-year-old and two other girls were killed in a knife attack July 29 at a dance workshop in the northern town of Southport. (OSV News photo/Yves Herman, Reuters)
Pope Francis shares a moment with members of the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary during a meeting at the Vatican Aug. 12, 2024, with members of four religious orders holding their general chapter meetings in Rome. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Sister Silvia Flores talks to a woman selling fruit Jan. 25, 2024, in San Salvador to see if she has any children who could be a good fit in a new program at the Colegio Eucarístico run by her congregation, the Mercedarian Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. (OSV News photo/Rhina Guidos, Global Sisters Report)
Author: Dianne Towalski
Dianne Towalski is a multimedia reporter for The Central Minnesota Catholic Magazine.
