Christian Bentley, a parishioner at St. Joseph Church in Alexandria, Va., speaks as he attends a lecture titled “Mental Health: Moving Past the Taboo to a Culture of Acceptance” at the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington Jan. 28, 2023. At right is Laurie Robles Ramirez, Latino ministry associate and immigrant community organizer in the Diocese of St. Cloud. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)Pope Francis talks to a group of sisters attending an audience with members of the Roman Rota, a Vatican tribunal, at the end of an audience at the Vatican Jan. 27, 2023. The Vatican court deals mainly with appeals in marriage annulment cases. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)People on both sides of the abortion issue express their views at the State Capitol in St. Paul Jan. 27, 2023, as members of the Minnesota Senate debated a bill that would place a right to abortion into state law. (OSV News photo/Dave Hrbacek, Catholic Spirit)Workers use wooden boards to cover the windows at a bonding office in downtown Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 27, 2023, before the release of the video showing police officers beating Tyre Nichols, the young Black man who was killed as a result of a traffic stop by Memphis police officers. (OSV News photo/Alyssa Pointer, Reuters)Awat Taieb, center, a member of the Zoroastrian community from Iraq, gives Pope Francis a painting during an audience at the Vatican Jan. 26, 2023. The papal audience was for participants from the conference “Women Building a Culture of Encounter Interreligiously,” which brought women from 12 religions together to share their experiences of interreligious dialogue. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)Pope Francis meets Anglican Archbishop Ian Ernest, the archbishop of Canterbury’s representative in Rome, and Orthodox Metropolitan Polykarpos of Italy, the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s representative in Rome, during an ecumenical evening prayer service marking the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome Jan. 25, 2023. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)A statue of Christ is surrounded by debris outside St. Hyacinth Catholic Church in the Houston suburb of Deer Park after a tornado swept through the town Jan. 24, 2023. The storm also tore off roofs, downed utility poles and power lines, and flipped cars, trucks and even a train. There were no immediate reports of serious injuries. (OSV News photo/courtesy Father Reginald Samuels)A child places flowers at the entrance of the Star Ballroom in Monterey Park, Calif., Jan. 24, 2023, near the scene of a mass shooting. The shooting left at least at least 11 people dead, 9 others injured late Jan. 21, in a neighborhood where thousands attended festivities on eve of Lunar New Year. (OSV News photo/David Swanson, Reuters)
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