Photos featured this week include Ash Wednesday Mass in Rome and here in St. Cloud, the blessing of Catholic United Financial’s newest location and a Mass for the canonization of St. Maria Antonia de Paz Figueroa.
Participants in the Leadership Collaborative’s Hope-Esperanza Conference in Chicago gather for a group photo Jan. 27, 2024. During the conference, Sister Linda Buck, a Sister of St. Joseph of Orange and executive director of the Leadership Collaborative, said “true global sisterhood was concrete in the room.” (OSV News photo/Dan Stockman, courtesy Global Sisters Report)
St. Cloud Bishop Patrick Neary blessed the new Catholic United Financial location in St. Cloud Feb.13. during the building’s grand opening. The organization, a non-profit and member-owned financial services company, relocated to the building that once housed St. Cloud Federal Credit Union at 120 10th Ave. N, to accommodate its ever-expanding footprint and consolidate services. (Dianne Towalski / The Central Minnesota Catholic)
A firefighter works at the site of a residential building in Selydove, in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, that was destroyed in a Russian missile attack Feb. 14, 2024. (OSV News photo/National Police handout via Reuters)
Franciscan Father Joe Nagle celebrates Mass on Ash Wednesday Feb. 14, 2024, in Washington’s Lafayette Park by the White House. The Mass was part of a “Lenten Ceasefire Campaign” launched by some Catholic and other Christian groups to call attention to and mourn for “the tens of thousands of lives that have been destroyed in Gaza and Israel” since Oct. 7, 2023. (OSV News photo/Kate Scanlon)
Altar servers lead the procession from the Church of St. Anselm to the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome for the celebration of Ash Wednesday Mass with Pope Francis Feb. 14, 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Father Sean Gann, pastor of St. Patrick Parish in Bay Shore, N.Y., looks on as dried palm fronds are burned during a prayer service outside his church Feb. 11, 2024. The ashes created by the fire will be used at the parish’s Ash Wednesday liturgies Feb. 14. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
Father Scott Pogatchnik places distributes ashes during the noon Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral in St. Cloud Feb. 14. (Dianne Towalski / The Central Minnesota Catholic)
Pope Francis gives candy to a child as he greets members of Confartigianato Imprese, an Italian confederation of artisans and small businesses, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Feb. 10, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Two women bring candles to the relics of St. Maria Antonia de Paz Figueroa, known as Mama Antula, during the Mass for her canonization in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Feb. 11, 2024. Pope Francis canonized her Feb. 11, making her the first female saint from Argentina. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
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