Casey Gunning, an athlete in the Special Olympics, speaks as her twin, Sister of Life Mary Casey, looks on during the 50th annual March for Life in Washington Jan. 20, 2023. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)An image of Christ and a monstrance are pictured during the first-ever Life Fest at the Entertainment & Sports Arena in Washington Jan. 20, 2023. The event was sponsored by the Knights of Columbus and the Sisters of Life. (OSV News photo/Jeffrey Bruno, Knights of Columbus)Lutheran Bishop Kaisamari Hintikka of Espoo, Finland, presents a book to Pope Francis during a meeting with an ecumenical delegation from Finland Jan. 19, 2023, in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)A woman reacts as she lays flowers Jan. 18, 2023, near the site of a helicopter crash in Brovary, Ukraine, as a tribute to the victims. The helicopter crashed into a kindergarten in a residential suburb of the capital, Kyiv, killing Ukraine’s interior minister and at least a dozen other people, including a child on the ground, authorities said. (OSV News photo/Nacho Doce, Reuters)Pope Francis holds a baby during his general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican Jan. 18, 2023. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)Boys are pictured in baskets on a horse during the blessing of farm animals and Italian military horses outside St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Jan. 17, 2023. The traditional event returned after a two-year hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)Father Liam McDonald, pastor of St. Therese of Lisieux Church in Montauk, N.Y., elevates a monstrance containing the Blessed Sacrament as he leads a eucharistic procession in Montauk on National Religious Freedom Sunday Jan. 15, 2023. The event, which was sponsored by Catholics for Freedom of Religion, took place the day before Religious Freedom Day. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
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