Michael Murphy, a Chelsea Pensioner, at the torchlight procession in Lourdes, one of the highlights of the week

Presentation Brother Brother Matthew Feheney holds up his new book, Catholic Education in Trinidad and Tobago: The Twentieth Century

Fr Marc Lyden-Smith and altar servers outside his parish church of St Aloysius, Hebburn, Tyne and Wear, after celebrating his first Mass

Richard Peers brings up water from a well at a dacha, or country house, in Russia

Pontiff preaches message of reconciliation as tensions in eastern Mediterranean escalate

Sister Marie Simon-Pierre was cured of aggressive Parkinson's disease after her order prayed to John Paul II

  In his introduction, Cardinal Nichols praised priests for “your faithfulness, your steadfast generosity, your ministry of healing, your endurance, not least under the burden of the grievous damage done to innocent victims by just a very few of our brother priests.” In his homily, he warned that priests may feel increasingly out of place

A 15-year-old boy from Płock in Poland has made a public stand against an “LGBT rights” march taking place in his home town. Jakub Baryla borrowed a large wooden cross from his parish priest and held it up in witness as participants marched past. Baryla, a councillor in the youth arm of Płock city council,

Catholics at the Diocese of Malindi in Kenya, Africa have taken the Blessed Sacrament for the first time in five years.