Father Christopher Martin carried the Blessed Sacrament in eucharistic adoration during week two of the Steubenville STL Mid-America youth conference Saturday, July 16, 2022, at the Great Southern Bank Arena in Springfield, Missouri. (Photo by Jacob Wiegand | St. Louis Review | [email protected])

Rita Sparrow, a parishioner at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish in St. Charles, folded hands as a priest spoke during a gathering Friday, June 24, 2022, outside Planned Parenthood in St. Louis, Missouri. Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court released its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization which overturned the Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision which legalized abortion.

Kateryna Freyak (right), who moved from Ukraine seven years ago and now lives in St. Peters, and her children Sasha, 14, and Tetiana, 8, attended a prayer service Friday, Feb 25, 2022, at St. Mary's Assumption Ukrainian Catholic Church in south St. Louis County, Missouri. A Russian invasion of Ukraine began Thursday. Alla Monastyrskiy, who moved from Ternopil, Ukraine, 26 years ago and now lives in St. Louis, said her mother still lives in Ukraine and her father is buried there. Monastyrskiy described the situation as a “nightmare.” (Photo by Jacob Wiegand | St. Louis Review | [email protected])

Facing camera from left: Sophia Simon, Sister Mary Michael, Gianna Citrowske and Gia Vorwerk smiled while Irish dancing during Carmelite Day on Saturday, May 21, 2022, at St. Agnes Home in Kirkwood, Missouri. Sister Mary Michael said the purpose of Carmelite Day, where numerous young women spent much of the day with Carmelite Sisters, was “inspired by the desire to foster relationships, to foster the potentiality of a vocation to our community,” but ultimately to “share with them the joy of Jesus Christ and the joy of consecrated life.” (Photo by Jacob Wiegand | St. Louis Review | [email protected])

Kate Scherman, a parishioner at Little Flower Church, held 13-month-old Fiona Scherman while receiving ashes from Father Lawrence Herzog during an Ash Wednesday Mass on Wednesday, Mar 2, 2022, at the church in Richmond Heights, Missouri. "We mark ourselves with ashes to show how this is a priority in our life," Father Herzog said during his homily. "That we are marked to be with our Lord for these next 40 days and we do show that to the world." Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent. (Photo by Jacob Wiegand | St. Louis Review | [email protected])

Chris Santillan embraced his mother Beatriz "Betty" Santillan shortly after he was released from prison Friday, Feb 18, 2022, at the Potosi Correctional Center in Washington County, Missouri. Santillian said when he was found guilty Feb. 18, 1994, his mother immediately stood up and “asked the judge if she could hug her son one last time.” But that wasn’t something she was able to do, he said. “Twenty-eight years to the day, and so, however belated, [I was] able to hug my mom.” (Photo by Jacob Wiegand | St. Louis Review | [email protected])

St. Ambrose School eighth-grader Giovi Ferrara portrayed Jesus Christ during His first fall during at a live Stations of the Cross event while followed by eighth-graders Nate Keiser, back left, and Adam Molli, who portrayed soldiers, Monday, April 11, 2022, at St. Ambrose Church in St. Louis, Missouri. “It was a good bonding experience with my class and as well it also kind of really taught me what it was like for Jesus,” Ferrara said. “I know it wasn’t exact, but just kind of showed me like the hard times He went through in His last hours on Earth.” (Photo by Jacob Wiegand | St. Louis Review | [email protected])

While learning about priest ordinations, Michael Lenzenhuber played role of bishop during the laying on of hands with John Paul Schmidt (head bowed) and Elijah Dwyer (left) during Kenrick-Glennon Days summer camp Tuesday, June 14, 2022, at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in Shrewsbury, Missouri. (Photo by Jacob Wiegand | St. Louis Review | [email protected])

Priesthood-ordination candidate Donald Morris kissed the hands of Father David Skillman during a blessing by Father Skillman before Morris' ordination Mass on Saturday, May 28, 2022, in the rectory of the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis in St. Louis, Missouri. (Photo by Jacob Wiegand | St. Louis Review | [email protected])

Father Brian Fallon (front left) and Father Jason Schumer (front right) took part in a water balloon launch event with Father Ryan Weber (back left, standing), Father Clark Philipp (below Weber) and Father Andrew Auer during Kenrick-Glennon Days summer camp Tuesday, June 14, 2022, at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in Shrewsbury, Missouri. (Photo by Jacob Wiegand | St. Louis Review | [email protected])

Father John Johnson made a sign of peace while celebrating Mass on Friday, April 1, 2022, at St. Justin Martyr Church in Sunset Hills, Missouri. Father Johnson, who is now retired, was ordained in 1966. (Photo by Jacob Wiegand | St. Louis Review | [email protected])

Robert and Lisa Spaedy kissed the hands of newly-ordained Father Donald Morris at a reception following Morris' ordination at Rosati-Kain High School in St. Louis, Missouri. (Photo by Jacob Wiegand | St. Louis Review | [email protected])

In this photo illustration, the Eucharist was depicted using an unconsecrated host held by Father Nicholas Smith on Thursday, April 21, 2022, at St. Vincent de Paul Chapel in the Cardinal Rigali Center in Shrewsbury, Missouri. (Photo by Jacob Wiegand | Catholic St. Louis | [email protected])

Deacon John Heithaus, a deacon at Sacred Heart in Florissant, held a monstrance containing the Eucharist during benediction at a formation gathering Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022, at the home of Theresa and Lucian Matoushek in Florissant, Missouri. The formation gathering included food, conversation, a speaker, Eucharistic adoration and benediction. (Photo by Jacob Wiegand | St. Louis Review | [email protected])

Olga Shulga (facing forward) and her daughter Sofia Shulga, both parishioners at St. Mary’s Assumption Ukrainian Catholic Church, danced during a Ukraine Independence Day event Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022, at Bohrer Park in south St. Louis County, Missouri. The event, marking Ukraine's Aug. 24 Independence Day, featured music, food, traditional Ukrainian dances and fundraising to support Ukraine. (Photo by Jacob Wiegand | St. Louis Review | [email protected])

Students, with backpacks ready to be blessed by Father Daniel G. Shaughnessy, folded their hands in prayer on the first day of school Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, at Saint Joseph School in Imperial, Missouri. (Photo by Jacob Wiegand | St. Louis Review | [email protected])

Sister M. Gloria Buckley, of the Sisters of St. Francis of the Martyr St. George, prayed the Stations of the Cross during personal prayer time Monday, Oct. 31, 2022, at St. Francis Convent in Alton, Illinois. Sister M. Gloria, who entered the convent in fall 2021, is from St. Louis. (Photo by Jacob Wiegand | St. Louis Review | [email protected])

Ali Thuet raised arms in worship during week two of the Steubenville STL Mid-America youth conference Saturday, July 16, 2022, at the Great Southern Bank Arena in Springfield, Missouri. (Photo by Jacob Wiegand | St. Louis Review | [email protected])

Peggy Winckowski, grandmother of Bishop DuBourg student Sam Crowe who died in a July accident, hugged Notre Dame sophomore Giau Nguyen near the end of the weekly gathering of the "breakfast club" on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, at Winckowski's home in St. Louis, Missouri. Winckowski hosts a "breakfast club" gathering of Sam's friends each Wednesday where food and memories of Sam are shared. (Photo by Jacob Wiegand | St. Louis Review | [email protected])