Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket blasts off near Van Horn, Texas, Oct. 13, 2021. Audrey Powers, vice president of mission and flight operations and an alumna of Mount de Sales Academy in the Baltimore Archdiocese, and William Shatner, who played the original Captain Kirk on “Star Trek,” were among the four crew members on the flight. (CNS photo/Mike Blake, Reuters)A Cal Fire engine company near Goleta, Calif., provides protection for a ranch structure from the Alisal Fire off Highway 101 Oct. 12, 2021. (CNS photo/Mike Eliason, SBCo FD, Handout via Reuters)People light candles in celebration of the feast of Our Lady of Aparecida at the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida in S„o Paulo Oct. 12, 2021. She is the patron saint of Brazil. (CNS photo/Carla Carniel, Reuters)A man dressed as Christopher Columbus is seen marching in the New York City Columbus Day Parade Oct. 11, 2021. The parade returned this year after being canceled in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)A woman near the White House in Washington poses for pictures Oct. 11, 2021, as people demonstrate during a climate change protest on Columbus Day, also called Indigenous Peoples Day by some activist groups. (CNS photo/Kevin Lamarque, Reuters)Cardinal Carlos Osoro Sierra of Madrid, papal legate for the Oct. 10, 2021, canonical coronation of Our Lady of La Leche, places a crown upon the statue of Mary feeding Jesus at her breast, during the canonical coronation Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine. (CNS photo/Scott Smith, St. Augustine Catholic)Sister Jaime Mitchell, a Franciscan Sister of the Eucharist of Chicago leads the cheer section for “Team OLA” during the 2021 Bank of America Chicago Marathon Oct. 9. (CNS photo/Karen Callaway, Chicago Catholic)
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