People in traditional dress wait for Pope Francis’ arrival to celebrate Mass on the plains of the Basilica of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows in Šaštin, Slovakia, Sept. 15, 2021. The pope visited Hungary and Slovakia Sept. 12-15. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with four civilians aboard its Crew Dragon capsule launches at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sept. 15, 2021. (CNS photo/Steve Nesius, Reuters)Father Jeff Pomeisl, a priest serving in the Archdiocese of New York, throws the ball during a softball game Sept. 16, 2021, at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers, N.Y. The game, which matched priest-alumni vs. seminarians, was one of the events affiliated with a celebration marking the 125th anniversary of the opening of the seminary. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)United Nations diplomats and other guests gather for a prayer service Sept. 13, 2021, at Holy Family Church in New York City. The service, hosted by the Vatican’s permanent observer mission to the U.N., was held on the eve of the opening of the 76th session of the U.N. General Assembly. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)Members of the apostolic movement Family of Families, founded by Polish Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski in 1952, carry his portrait at the Church of Divine Providence in Warsaw Sept. 12, 2021, during his joint beatification with Mother Elisabeth Rosa Czacka. Cardinal Wyszynski steered Poland’s Catholic Church through communist rule. Mother Czacka was a blind Franciscan nun who founded one of Europe’s foremost centers for the sight-impaired. (CNS photo/Grzegorz Galazka)Karolina Gawrych, whose 2010 cure from severe head injuries was a miracle attributed to the intercession of Mother Elisabeth Rosa Czacka, carries Blessed Czacka’s relics at the beatification Mass Sept. 12, 2021, in Warsaw’s Church of Divine Providence. (CNS photo/Grzegorz Galazka)Well wishers in Lawrence, Mass., watch the remains of Marine Corps Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo, one of the 13 U.S. service members killed in the airport suicide bombing in Afghanistanís capital of Kabul, arrive in her hometown Sept. 11, 2021. (CNS photo/Brian Snyder, Reuters)
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