Photos featured this week include a procession marking the Feast of Corpus Christi in Minsk, Belarus, damage to statue of St. Junipero Serra in San Francisco, Catholic media professionals gathered in Baltimore and more.
Baltimore Auxiliary Bishop Adam J. Parker processes in for Mass June 7, 2023, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption in Baltimore during the June 6-9 Catholic Media Conference. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
A view shows a flooded area in Kherson June 7, 2023, after the Nova Kakhovka dam breached, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine. (OSV News photo/Vladyslav Smilianets, Reuters)
Veteran Vatican journalist Cindy Wooden, left, receives The John Cardinal Foley Award for Excellence in Communications June 5, 2023, from Father Keith Chylinski, rector of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia. The award is named for the seminary’s alumnus and former faculty member Cardinal Foley, who was president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. It is presented annually as part of the seminary’s celebration of World Communications Day. (OSV News photo/Sarah Webb, CatholicPhilly.com)
A vandalized statue of St. Junipero Serra in San Francisco is seen June 19, 2020. San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and other Catholics are reacting to the downgrading of felony charges against those who destroyed the statue. (OSV News photo/David Zandman via Reuters)
A woman holds an image of Mary and the Christ Child before a 2018 procession marking the Feast of Corpus Christi in Minsk, Belarus. The church in Belarus is suffering persecution from the regime of President Alexander Lukashenko with the state interfering traditional Corpus Christi processions and arresting priests. (OSV News photo/Vasily Fedosenko, Reuters)
A woman places flowers among crosses in a memorial set up outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, to honor the 19 students and two teachers killed there May 24, 2022, in a mass shooting. People gathered at the memorial May 24, 2023, one year after the shooting. Father Daniel Carson, the pastor of St. Peter’s Parish on Capitol Hill in Washington seen at right in the background of this photo, joined people praying there. He was among 14 parish leaders from across the United States who participated in a mission immersion trip to Uvalde sponsored by Catholic Extension. (OSV News photo/Rich Kalonick, courtesy Catholic Extension)
Author: Dianne Towalski
Dianne Towalski is a multimedia reporter for The Central Minnesota Catholic Magazine.
