Photos of the Week: New Catholic cardinals; Hindu Ganesha festival
By Kit Doyle · September 2, 2022
(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes the elevation of new cardinals in the Catholic Church, a Hindu Ganesha festival and more.
Pope Francis prays in front of new cardinals during a consistory inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. Pope Francis elevated 20 men as the Catholic Church's newest cardinals. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
New Cardinal Virgilio Do Carmo Da Silva receives the red three-cornered biretta hat from Pope Francis during a consistory inside St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, Aug. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Cardinals attend a Mass celebrated by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican for 20 newly-created cardinals, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022, concluding a two-day consistory. The assembled cardinals discussed the Praedicate Evangelium (Preach the Gospel), Francis' apostolic constitution reforming the Roman Curia, which was promulgated in March. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Italian police talk with protesters outside the Vatican as cardinals meet to discuss Pope Francis' apostolic constitution reforming the Vatican bureaucracy, Aug. 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
A group of protesters hold an umbrella bearing a slogan reading: "Sexism is a Cardinal Sin", as cardinals meet at the Vatican to discuss Pope Francis' apostolic constitution reforming the Vatican bureaucracy, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
A Hindu devotee offers prayers to a statuette of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha before its immersion in Hussain Sagar Lake on the second day of the ten-day long Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
Devotees carry a statuette of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha to take home for worship during Ganesh Chaturthi festival celebrations in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. The 10-day long Ganesh festival began Wednesday and generally ends with the immersion of Ganesha idols in bodies of water on the final day. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
Orthodox Christian priests attend a ceremony marking the beginning of the ecclesiastic year, at the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, holds a ceremony marking the beginning of the ecclesiastic year, at the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
