The political climate has not changed Old St. Patrick’s Parish’s longstanding ministry of helping immigrants resettle in the Chicago area. That was clear when the parish held its annual collection of household goods on Feb. 16.

In Huandacareo, Michoacán, nearly half a million devotees process with the image of “El Señor del Amparo” (“The Lord of Protection”) through the streets on Holy Thursday night, from the end of the Mass of the Lord’s Supper until about 5 a.m.

Dozens of people gathered at St. Paschal Church and Pope Francis Global Academy in the early evening of March 13 to pray for Pope Francis on the 12th anniversary of his election.