Photos featured this week are scenes from Christmas at the Vatican, in Bethlehem and in the U.S.
Bishop Patrick Neary blesses the nativity scene at St. Mary’s Cathedral in St. Cloud during the Christmas Eve Mass. He is assisted by Sister Jeanne Wiest, OP and Deacon John Woken. (Dianne Towalski / The Central Minnesota Catholic)
Children place flowers around a figurine of the baby Jesus in front of the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica during Christmas Mass with Pope Francis at the Vatican Dec. 24, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
El Papa Francisco saluda a unas 70.000 personas reunidas en la Plaza de San Pedro del Vaticano para su bendición navideña “urbi et orbi” (a la ciudad y al mundo) el 25 de diciembre de 2023. (Foto CNS/Vatican Media)
Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa and Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, prefect of Vatican Dicastery for the Service of Charity, participate in a procession at the beginning of Mass at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, on the West Bank, Dec. 24, 2023. Cardinal Krajewski arrived in the Holy Land Dec. 22 to be present to Palestinian Christians during Christmas amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. (OSV News photo/courtesy Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem)
At the living Nativity held outside St. Camillus Church in Silver Spring, Md., Dec. 24, 2023, Emma Lendi from the Ivory Coast and her husband, John Lendi from Togo, along with their 8-month-old son, Yohann, portray the Holy Family and represent the parish’s African members. Others pictured are Anne Sandjol and Corinne Sylva, portraying the shepherds; Shirley Wilson and Mully Durce as the angels; and Frederic Sandjol, Emmanuel Djiboune and Bryan Monteiro as the three kings. (OSV News photo/Mihoko Owada, Catholic Standard)
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