Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, leads a sunrise walk to end abuse Nov. 18, 2021, outside the hotel in Baltimore where the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops was being held Nov. 15-18. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)The placard of a Filipino murder victim and “tsinelas,” Filipino for “flip-flops,” are seen during a human rights demonstration near the U.S. Capitol in Washington Nov. 18, 2021. Activists displayed 3,000 pairs of flip-flops in calling on Congress to pass the Philippines Human Rights Act in response to President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs directive, which has led to the murder of more than 30,000 Filipinos since 2016. Each pair of flip-flops represented 10 killings. The bill would impose limits on funding for police and the military in the Philippines. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)Pope Francis greets Clown Doctors who entertain in hospitals during his weekly general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican Nov. 17, 2021. (CNS photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters)Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Robert G. Casey opens the holy doors at the National Shrine of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini in Chicago Nov. 13, 2021. He concelebrated Mass at the shrine to open the jubilee year commemorating the 75th anniversary of the canonization of Mother Cabrini, as she was best known. She founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1880, and ministered to immigrants and the poor. She died in Chicago Dec. 22, 1917. (CNS photo/Karen Callaway, Chicago Catholic)A crane and several ropes hold a Norway spruce in place before it is cut down in Fair Hill, Md., Nov. 11, 2021, to be taken on a flatbed truck to New York City. Julie and Devon Price, parishioners at Immaculate Conception Church in Elkton, Md., donated the tree. It arrived at Rockefeller Center in New York Nov. 13 and will be this year’s Christmas tree in midtown Manhattan. (CNS photo/Mike Lang, The Dialog)German publishing company Verlag Herder has paid tribute to retired Pope Benedict XVI, 94, as its most loyal and oldest living author. In November 1956 the then-29-year-old theologian signed this contract to work on the “Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche” (“Encyclopedia for Theology and the Church”). (CNS photo/courtesy Verlag Herder)
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