Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster, president of the Santa Marta Group, holds an action plan to combat human trafficking, during a news conference at the Vatican after a meeting with Pope Francis May 19, 2022. Representatives of the Santa Marta group, an alliance of church and secular officials, including police, presented an action plan to combat human trafficking to the pope. Also pictured is Kenyan Judge Roselyn Naliaka Nambuye. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)Pope Francis talks with U2 singer Bono before a meeting of Scholas Occurentes in Rome May 19, 2022. The event was for the launch of the “Laudato Si’ School,” a yearlong project of Scholas young people to develop projects to promote protection of the environment. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)Newly commissioned Coast Guard officers in New London, Conn., toss their caps at the conclusion of the 141st commencement at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy May 18, 2022. (CNS photo/Bryan Woolston, Reuters)A boy writes a message on a sidewalk May 18, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y., where a mass shooting took place May 14 at a Tops supermarket. (CNS photo/Brendan McDermid, Reuters)Bishop Michael W. Fisher of Buffalo, N.Y., places flowers at a memorial May 17, 2022, in the wake of a weekend mass shooting at a Tops supermarket. (CNS photo/Brendan McDermid, Reuters)Members of the “Political Fraternity” project of the Chemin Neuf lay movement lay hands on and pray for Pope Francis at the end of an audience May 16, 2022, in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)Sister Ann Rehrauer, community president of the Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Cross in Green Bay, Wis., uses a censer May 14, 2022, to bless a monument with a plaque that acknowledges “the First Nations people who are the original inhabitants of this region.” Behind the monument are Nathaniel Longtail Jr., second from left, who is the Ho-Chunk Nation administrative officer, and the Ho-Chunk honor song performers. The Green Bay Franciscans are the first known community of women religious in Wisconsin to issue a land acknowledgment policy. (CNS photo/Sam Lucero, The Compass)Salvadoran Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chavez gives a blessing May 14, 2022, at the burial place that holds some of the remains of hundreds of peasants massacred in 1980 near the Sumpul River near Las Aradas, El Salvador. He said he learned from those who attended the commemoration that peace can only come from justice, truth and the purification of memory through such events. (CNS photo/courtesy Father Manuel Acosta)A vial of holy water from Lourdes, France, and a Blessed Michael McGivney prayer card from a prayer kit are seen May 13, 2022. Participants in a May 10-16 pilgrimage to Lourdes for U.S. active-duty military personnel and veterans assembled 3,000 prayer kits for Ukrainian soldiers. The kits, which also include an Our Lady of Lourdes prayer card, will be shipped to Ukrainian soldiers fighting on the front lines in their besieged nation. (CNS photo/Tamino Petelinsek, Knights of Columbus)Anna Qabale Duba, right, a Kenyan nurse, reacts when she wins the inaugural Aster Guardians Global Nursing Award during the awards ceremony in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, May 12, 2022. She is hugging Manju Dhandapani, another contestant from India. (CNS photo/courtesy Aster Guardians)
Author: Catholic News Service
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