Laois: Kyrle Delaney receives a Benemerenti medal from Fr Sean Maher PP at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Stradbally. Also pictured is former PP Fr Sean Kelly (left).  

Dublin: Archbishop Eamon Martin launches the new publication by Dr John O’Keeffe entitled The Masses of Sean and Peadar O’Riada: Explanations in Vernacular Chant, which assesses the achievements of both composers measuring their work against the heritage discipline and compositional principles of western plain chant. Pictured are Archbishop Eamon Martin chatting with Dr O’Keeffe (centre)…

Clare: Bishop Fintan Monahan thanks Gerard Gallagher and Jesse Rogers for “excellent presentations” at the Killaloe Diocesan In-service, also pictured are Maureen Kelly, Ger Nash and Eamon FitzGibbon.

US: A helicopter drops water on a fast moving wildfire in Orange, California. A recent Catholic Climate Covenant webinar explored the connection between global warming and extreme weather events.

India: A woman in Delhi sits amid the rubble of her home destroyed by local authorities in a bid to relocate the residents. Pope Francis will celebrate the Catholic Church’s first World Day of the Poor this Sunday.

Kenya: A protester shouts in front of a burning barricade in a slum area of Nairobi. Kenyan Catholic bishops have announced plans to convene a national dialogue forum in the face of a political crisis

A perfect sunny day as Sr Marie Therese Brosnan delights Caitlin Barry, blowing bubbles with her in the garden of St Mary’s Abbey, Glencairn, Co. Waterford. The picture is contained in a new book, A Year in the Life of Glencairn Abbey, which – through a series of images and words – offers a rare insight…

Loreto nun Sr Orla Treacy, with a statue of Msgr Hugh O’Flaherty after being awarded the 2017 Hugh O’Flaherty International Humanitarian Award in Killarney over the weekend. Sr Orla is principal of the Loreto school in Rumbek, South Sudan, where she has been a missionary since 2006. Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan

  Bishop Fintan Monahan, Bishop William Lee , Bishop Phonsie Cullinan, Dom Andre Barbour, Bishop Kieran O’Reilly and Bishop Willie Walsh with Mount Melleray’s Abbot Richard Purcell (centre) ahead of a Mass to invoke God’s blessing on the new abbot and his ministry. Photo: Oisin McHugh/ True Media

Dublin: Dragon’s Den Alison Cowzer of Eastcoast Bakehouse pictured at the launch of Irish Girl Guides’ National Cookie Month with (from left) Keri Russell (age 9), Lauren Collier (9) and Isabella McGaughey (8) of Boyne Valley Brownies, Drogheda. Photo: Jimmy Weldon.