The stamps became available on May 27, a month after the issuing of sede vacante stamps, and a week after the postal service launched a new website separate from that of the Vatican City State.

Cardinal Parolin also responded to reports that some leader of the Roman Curia had failed to respond appropriately to abuse complaints in their previous posts as diocesan bishops. (Cardinal Prevost—now Pope Leo—was among the prelates mentioned in those reports.) He said that Vatican investigations into the reports “have definitely found no irregularities in the conduct of the diocesan bishops.”

Cardinal Becciu, who has appealed the guilty verdict, was relieved of his post in the Roman Curia when the criminal charges against him were filed. He is currently without a pastoral assignment.

The “conclave bonus,” a Vatican tradition, had been interrupted by Pope Francis, who directed the funds instead to charity. Pope Leo reinstated the bonus for employees while also making a special gift to the poor through the office of papal charities.

In brief remarks the Pope said that “it’s the team that wins the championship.” Reflecting more broadly, he said: “Unfortunately, when sport becomes a business, it risks losing the values that make it educational, and it can even become harmful from that point of view.”

Buddhism is the official religion of the Southeast Asian nation of 57.5 million (map); the nation is 74% Buddhist, 9% ethnic religionist, 9% Christian, and 4% Muslim.

The Maine House of Representatives, in a party-line vote, voted to censure Rep. Laurel Libby after she criticized a state girls’ sports victory by a boy who identified as a girl. The house speaker, Rep. Ryan Fecteau, took the further step of preventing Rep. Libby from voting or speaking on the House floor.

The nation of 8.9 million (map) is 50% Christian (34% Catholic) and 17% Muslim, with 32% adhering to ethnic religions.

The documentary, produced by the Mehrin Foundation and Czech Television, premieres on May 28 in the prelate’s hometown of Brno, Czechia, in the presence of the cardinal. Cardinal Czerny’s mother, a Catholic of Jewish heritage, survived two years of Nazi imprisonment during the Second World War, and the family emigrated to Canada in 1948, when the future cardinal was two years old.

Pope Leo also spoke of “the great witness that you are all giving and that the continent of Africa gives to the whole world.”

The dicastery’s press release paid tribute to “the legacy of His Holiness Maha Ghosananda.” Preah Maha Ghosananda (1913-2007), a Buddhist monk, was known as the “Gandhi of Cambodia.”

“Mary can share the sufferings of her children because she is, herself, a suffering mother,” Cardinal Grech preached in Luxembourg on May 25. “We are living examples of wounded people, healed by the Lord, who still bear and never deny the traces of our wounds and fragilities. This is what being pilgrims of hope truly means: we walk with the wounded people because we are ourselves the wounded people.”