Young people walk near the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, in this June 17, 2022, file photo. In a July 11 message to young people attending the "EU Youth Conference" in Prague, Pope Francis said young men and women in Europe must look beyond "short-sighted ideologies" that are prevalent in today's world. (CNS photo/Vincent West, Reuters)
After a harrowing two-month journey from Ukraine to the United States, Anton Bezborodov arrived in Indianapolis April 22, 2022, where his true home is, he said, with Beth and Thomas Wright, members of St. John the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis. Growing up in an orphanage in Ukraine, Anton spent Christmas 2017 with the Wrights as part of an international program to give orphans in Ukraine an opportunity to spend the holidays with an American family. (CNS photo/John Shaughnessy, The Criterion)