Featured photos this week include a rosary procession in St. Paul, a Marian walk in Wisconsin, Pope Francis visiting with Spiderman and more.
Prince William, next in line to the British throne, looks on while his family, including wife Princess Catherine and children Princess Charlotte and Princes George and Louis, toast marshmallows as they participate in the Big Help Out, during a visit to the third Upton Scouts Hut in Slough, west of London, Britain, May 8, 2023. (OSV News photo/Daniel Leal, Reuters)
Approximately 15,000 people braved the rain to watch musical and theater groups in the country’s famed Centenario football stadium in Montevideo, Uruguay, as they pay tribute to Bishop Jacinto Vera May 6, 2023, prior to an outdoor Mass during which he was beatified. Blessed Vera was not only the first bishop of Montevideo, the country’s capital, but is considered the father of the local church. (OSV News photo/Lucien Chauvin).
Members of Knights of Columbus Council 16198 from St. Francis de Sales in St. Paul, Minn., carry a statue of Mary during the annual Family Rosary Procession May 7, 2023, from the state Capitol to the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul. (OSV News file photo/Dave Hrbacek, The Catholic Spirit)
Residents wade through water after their homes were swamped, following rains that triggered flooding and landslides in Rubavu, Rwanda, May 3, 2023. As the death toll from the flooding and landslides in neighboring Congo surpassed 400, Catholic bishops in the country expressed their deep sorrow and called for support. (OSV News/Jean Bizimana, Reuters)
A woman participates in the call to prayer before a May 6 Mass marking the 20th annual Asian and Pacific Island Catholics Marian Pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington May 6, 2023. It featured sacred songs and movements by participating groups, including the Samoan Catholic Community of Metro Washington. (OSV News photo/Mihoko Owada, Catholic Standard)
Walk to Mary participants walk past a statue of Jesus located along the Fox River Trail in Allouez, Wis., May 6, 2023. More than 5,000 people participated in the 10th annual Walk to Mary, a 21-mile pilgrimage from the National Shrine of St. Joseph in De Pere, Wis., to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion in Champion, Wis. (OSV News photo/Sam Lucero)
Pope Francis meets 19-year-old Francesco Pio Tarantino, who visits children in hospitals dressed as Spider-Man, after his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican May 10, 2023. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
“Birth of Christ,” an icon by Ivanka Demchuk, is seen on display at the Marian Library of the University of Dayton in Ohio in this undated photo. The icon is on loan from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection to the library through June 30, 2023. (OSV News/Marian Library, University of Dayton)
Seniors from Allen High School in Texas gather in a circle May 10, 2023, to pray at a vigil, four days after a gunman shot and killed at least eight people and injured at least seven others, at the Dallas-area Allen Premium Outlets Mall. Among the fatalities in the mass shooting were Ave Maria School of Law graduate Kyu Cho, his wife and their youngest son, leaving their 6-year-old, William, as the family’s lone survivor. (OSV News photo/Shelby Tauber, Reuters)
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