In the carpentry shop at Red Cloud Indian School on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Elmer Red Cloud, great grandson of the famed Lakota warrior, paints crucifixes for placement in the cemetery during the Memorial Day celebration.

The sacristan, 82 years old, lights candles at the San Juan Capistrano mission.

Saint Peter's Basilica

Pope John Paul II presents the president of Portugal and his wife an icon during their visit.

The reflected glow of the sunset stains a window at St. Rose's Catholic Church in Soldier Creek, South Dakota. Inside, Myrtis Walking Eagle, 14, follows the Christmas Mass.

Branding day is a ranch life custom during which friends and neighbors assist with the round-up and branding of calves.

Fr. David Korth joins his parishioners in a traditional Native American sweat lodge ceremony.