Photos featured this week include participants in the assembly of the Synod of Bishops walking on the ancient Via Appia in Rome, a relic of St. Thérèse of Lisieux at the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul, Pope Francis receiving a painting of himself and the Virgin Mary after his weekly general audience and more.
Joseph Damiani of St. Peter in Forest Lake, Minn., holds his sister Philomena up to the reliquary containing a relic of St. Thérèse of Lisieux at the end of the Children’s Rosary Pilgrimage at the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 6, 2023. They came with their mother, Lisa Damiani, and siblings. Their father is Deacon Matthew Damiani, who serves at St. Peter in Forest Lake. The event featured Catholic school students and staff praying the rosary with Auxiliary Bishop Michael J. Izen and veneration of relics of St. Thérèse and her parents, Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin. (OSV News photo/Dave Hrbacek, The Catholic Spirit)
Pilgrims process with a statue of Mary during the Marian procession for the annual Dominican pilgrimage to the Basilica of our Lady, Queen of Ireland in Knock Oct. 8, 2023. (OSV News photo/Cillian Kelly)
Members of the Sisters of Life participate in a Eucharistic procession through Midtown Manhattan in New York City Oct. 10, 2023. The procession and the Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral that preceded it attracted more than 2,000 people. The services, which concluded with benediction at the cathedral, were affiliated with the Napa Institute’s Principled Entrepreneurship Conference taking place in New York City Oct. 10-11. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
Pope Francis is given a painting of himself and the Virgin Mary after his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Oct. 11, 2023. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
People mourn at the graveside of Eden Guez during her funeral in Ashkelon, Israel, Oct. 10, 2023. She was killed while attending a festival that was attacked by Hamas gunmen from Gaza. Israel increased airstrikes on the Gaza Strip and sealed it off from food, fuel and other supplies Oct. 9 in retaliation for a bloody incursion by Hamas militants, as the war’s death toll rose to nearly 1,600 on both sides. Hamas also escalated the conflict, pledging to kill captured Israelis if attacks targeted civilians without warnings. (OSV News photo/Violeta Santos Moura, Reuters)
Members of Indigenous Enterprise, a Phoenix-based Native American dance troupe, play drums during a performance on Governors Island in New York City Oct. 8, 2023. In many U.S. localities, Indigenous Peoples Day is observed instead of or in addition to Columbus Day, which is the second Monday of October. In 2023, the observance was Oct. 9. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
Pope Francis reaches out to touch a statue of Our Lady of Montserrat during an audience with pilgrims marking the 800th anniversary of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Montserrat Oct. 7, 2023, in the San Damaso Courtyard of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
A boy reacts near the body of Yousef Idrees, a Palestinian who was killed in clashes with Israeli forces, ahead of his funeral, in a hospital in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Oct. 8, 2023. The attacks have left at least 600 Israelis dead, among them civilians and dozens of soldiers and police who were killed battling the Hamas fighters, and more than 2,000 people are injured. (OSV News photo/Mussa Qawasma, Reuters)
Participants in the assembly of the Synod of Bishops walk on the ancient Via Appia in Rome as they make a pilgrimage to the catacombs and to the Basilica of St. Sebastian Oct. 12, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
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