Pope Francis is presented with a type of bread as he is welcomed by Slovak President Zuzana Caputov· at the international airport in Bratislava, Slovakia, Sept. 12, 2021. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)Pope Francis leads an audience with activists raising awareness about unaccompanied refugee minors and children from the Diocese of Rome, at the Vatican Sept. 10, 2021. The activists were making a 5,000-mile pilgrimage from Syria with a giant puppet, right, in the lead. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)Pope Francis greets children during an audience with activists raising awareness about unaccompanied refugee minors and children from the Diocese of Rome, at the Vatican Sept. 10, 2021. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)A person in New York City stands in the rain with a red rose at the 9/11 Memorial Sept. 9, 2021, ahead of the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks in Manhattan. (CNS photo/Andrew Kelly, Reuters)Members of the military carry the remains of U.S. Navy Corpsman Max Soviak to his home town Berlin Heights, Ohio, Sept. 8, 2021. He was one of 13 U.S. service members killed in the airport suicide bombing in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul. (CNS photo/Megan Jelinger, Reuters)A landslide and a damaged car are seen in the aftermath of an earthquake in Acapulco, Mexico, Sept. 8, 2021. (CNS photo/Edgard Garrido, Reuters)The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, the largest Confederate statue remaining in the United States, is removed by a construction team in Richmond, Va., Sept. 8, 2021. (CNS photo/Evelyn Hockstein, Reuters)Catholics pray in Mexico City Sept. 7, 2021, as they protest the Mexican Supreme Court’s decision that declared the criminalization of abortion is unconstitutional. (CNS photo/Gustavo Graf, Reuters)Participants play volleyball during the annual Labor Day Encuentro Sept. 6, 2021, at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington, N.Y. The daylong event, sponsored by the Hispanic Ministry and Evangelization office of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, N.Y., includes Mass, social activities and a picnic. The gathering offers Latino youth and families an opportunity to celebrate their faith and heritage in a communal setting. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
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