(RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo selection includes Pope Leo XIV visiting Spain, the NBA Finals and more.
Pope Leo XIV presides over a Mass marking the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi at Plaza de Cibeles in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, June 7, 2026, during his apostolic visit to mainland Spain and the Canary Islands. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
Youths stage a soccer match during a meeting with Pope Leo XIV and the diocesan community at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Monday, June 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
People wait for the arrival of Pope Leo XIV during a prayer vigil with young people at Plaza de Lima in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, June 6, 2026, on the first day of his seven-day apostolic visit to mainland Spain and the Canary Islands. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
People dance to music before the arrival of Pope Leo XIV for a prayer vigil at Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, June 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Pope Leo XIV looks at the cheering crowd upon arriving at midday prayer at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, June 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Filmmaker Spike Lee, left, smiles during warm ups prior to Game 3 of the NBA Finals basketball series between the San Antonio Spurs and the New York Knicks, Monday, June 8, 2026, in New York. Lee wore a personalized jersey signed by Pope Leo XIV. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
The Salesian Sisters greet players prior to Game 1 of the NBA Finals basketball series between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs, Wednesday, June 3, 2026, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Some attendees dance between programming at the Turning Point USA Women’s Leadership Summit, Saturday, June 6, 2026, in San Antonio, Texas. (RNS photo/Kathryn Post)
Children play in foam during a street festival celebrating the Muslim Shiite holiday of Eid al-Ghadir, the anniversary of Prophet Muhammad naming his successor, Ali, who is revered as the first Shiite Imam, in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, June 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Archaeological workers wearing hard hats dig 13 feet underground during excavations outside Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, Monday, June 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Nicolas Garriga)
Archival Photos
Sister Maria Thaddea of the Order of the Daughters of St. Mary, third from left, claps while she joins fellow recruits in singing a national service song in Tabora, Tanzania, in 1967. Many of Tanzania's Catholics protested the drafting of the 25-year-old nun to national service, but she received automatic weapon and bayonet training. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
Pope Paul VI, left, and Patriarch Athenagoras clasp hands as they leave Istanbul's Orthodox Cathedral of St. George where they participated in a one-hour unity prayer service on July 25, 1967. The historic occasion marked the first time that a pope prayed in an Orthodox church, and the first time a pope sat on the right side of an Ecumenical Patriarch in a place of honor. Later in the same day, the pope and the supreme leader of Eastern Orthodoxy met again for joint prayers in the Catholic Church of the Holy Spirit, near the Apostolic Delegation, where the pontiff stayed on his visit to the predominantly Muslim city. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
