Photos featured this week include Pope Francis leaving the hospital, Bishop Neary at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ spring plenary assembly in Orlando, Florida, students in Turin working on a small CubeSat satellite, which was launched into space June 12, a priest ordination in Milan and more.
Pope Francis smiles and waves to people as he leaves Rome’s Gemelli hospital early June 16, 2023, nine days after undergoing abdominal surgery. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Bishops pray during morning prayer June 15, 2023, at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ spring plenary assembly in Orlando, Fla. Pictured are Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, USCCB vice president; Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, USCCB president; Father Michael J.K. Fuller, USCCB general secretary; and Bishop Patrick M. Neary of St. Cloud, Minn. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, signs the Declaration on Human Fraternity during the World Meeting on Human Fraternity in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican June 10, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Children wearing their first holy Communion dresses and suits participate in a Eucharistic procession marking the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) at St. Patrick Church in Smithtown, N.Y., June 10, 2023. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens of Crookston, Minn., chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis, speaks June 9, 2023, during the Catholic Media Conference in Baltimore. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
A newly ordained Catholic priest is thrown into the air by friends and family after the ordination ceremony, outside Milan’s Duomo Cathedral June 10, 2023. (OSV News photo/Claudia Greco, Reuters)
In this undated photo, students at the Polytechnic University of Turin work on “Spei Satelles,” a small CubeSat satellite they built, which was launched into space June 12, 2023. The satellite carries a “nano” version of Pope Francis’ book, “Why Are You Afraid? Have You No Faith?” It is also built to send signals back to earth for ham radio operators to hear the pope’s messages of hope and peace. The “Spei Satelles” project is promoted by the Vatican Dicastery for Communication. (CNS photo/courtesy of Vatican Media)
Filipino youths are pictured in a file photo carry placards during the celebration of the Global March Against Child Labor in Manila. The World Day Against Child Labor conference in Geneva, June 12, 2023, focused on the worldwide scourge — an estimated 160 million worldwide are used as child labor — with the ambitious goal of ending child labor completely by 2025. (OSV News photo/Romeo Ranoco, Reuters)
An elevated view shows the dramatic decline of water levels at Lake Mead near Boulder City, Nev., March 13, 2023. The nation’s largest reservoir has reached its lowest water levels on record since it was created by damming the Colorado River in the 1930s, as growing demand for water and climate change shrink the Colorado River and endanger a water source millions of Americans depend on. (OSV News photo/Bing Guan, Reuters)
Father Seamus Griesbach, center in vestments, leads hundreds of parishioners in a Eucharistic procession through Portland, Maine, on Corpus Christi Sunday, June 11, 2023. The priest is rector of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland and pastor of three parishes. The procession helped the Diocese of Portland and other U.S. dioceses launch the parish year of the U.S. bishops’ National Eucharistic Revival. (OSV News photo/courtesy Diocese of Portland)
Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, Vatican foreign minister, reads via video link a message from Pope Francis to the U.N. Security Council during a meeting at the U.N. headquarters in New York June 14, 2023. (CNS screengrab/Courtesy United Nations)
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