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Catch up on the Catholic news of the day with OSV News, featuring top stories from the Vatican, the U.S. and across the world. At OSV News, we've got the Church covered.

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    Catholic Healthcare and Assisted Suicide, Gaza Hospital Damaged, Ceuta Migration Crossing, and More

    Thanks for listening! Let us know what you think. God bless! Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for July 31, 2026. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com. Read the stories in this episode: A federal judge temporarily shielded on July 30 four orders of women religious and Catholic healthcare ministries from enforcement of a New York state law allowing physicians to aid terminally ill adults in dying by suicide.A Catholic-supported hospital in Gaza City sustained damage after an Israeli airstrike hit a nearby residential apartment late July 29, according to the Catholic Near East Welfare Association's Pontifical Mission in Lebanon and Syria.The Hillbilly Thomists are in the midst of a 10-city U.S. tour, scheduled to end Aug. 8 -- the feast of St. Dominic -- in Nashville for Dominican Fest at the Dominican Campus, home to three schools run by the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia. The Diocese of Cádiz and Ceuta is offering emergency assistance to civil authorities after more than 60,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, creating the largest migration crisis in the territory's history.As an estimated 350,000 Haitian immigrants in the United States face losing Temporary Protected Status, church leaders are calling for prayer and action.

  2. 2d ago

    Andrea Bocelli Concert for the Pope, Asylum Seeker Crackdown, March for Life President Resigns, and More

    Thanks for listening! Let us know what you think. God bless! Maggie Murray of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for July 30, 2026. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com. Read the stories in this episode: Bishop Daniel Flores expressed relief that Sister Leticia Ugbaoja, a Nigerian-born nurse and religious sister detained by ICE en route to Mass, can remain in the US while her immigration case proceeds, though the ultimate outcome remains uncertain.Jennie Bradley Lichter announced she is stepping down as president of the March for Life effective July 31st to become a full-time mother, leaving the organization to seek new leadership amid key pro-life policy battles.Catholic immigration advocates including CLINIC condemned a new Trump administration rule, issued without public comment, that could push nearly 445,000 asylum seekers directly into deportation proceedings.UK Catholic leaders praised Prime Minister Andy Burnham's commitment to strengthening palliative care ahead of a September vote on assisted dying legislation, while urging him to also act on overseas aid, homelessness and child poverty.Pope Leo XIV reflected on music's power to draw people toward God after Andrea Bocelli led 164 young singers in a Jubilee concert at Castel Gandolfo marking the 800th anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi's death.

  3. 3d ago

    Medjugorje Suspect Detained, Trumps Recognizes Blessed Stanley Rother, Florida Bishops Condemn Double Execution, and Sigrid Undset's American Popularity

    Thanks for listening! Let us know what you think. God bless! Maggie Murray of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for July 29, 2026. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com. Read the stories in this episode: Police detained a Polish suspect in the Medjugorje vandalism attack as workers restored the damaged statue and altar, while a Catholic filmmaker who knew the man urged restraint over online condemnation ahead of the shrine's annual youth festival.President Trump marked the 45th anniversary of Blessed Stanley Rother's martyrdom, honoring the Oklahoma-born priest as the first American-born martyr beatified by the Catholic Church for his sacrificial service in Guatemala.Florida executed two death row inmates in a single day for the first time since 1964, just one day after the state's Catholic bishops issued a pastoral letter condemning capital punishment as part of "a culture of death."Bishop Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez told attendees at a Palm Beach event that clergy sexual abuse threatens "faith itself" by destroying the credibility of those entrusted to preach the Gospel, drawing on his own doctoral research into canon law protections for victims.Oslo's Bishop Fredrik Hansen described Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset's post-conversion life as reflecting the heroic virtues required for sainthood, noting strong interest from American Catholics helped prompt his diocese to formally begin exploring her canonization cause.

  4. 4d ago

    Medjugorje Vandalism, Mount Cristo Rey Legal Fight, Bishops Named to Vatican Court, and Pope Calls Youth to 'Holy Rebelliousness'

    Thanks for listening! Let us know what you think. God bless! Maggie Murray of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for July 28, 2026. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com. Read the stories in this episode: Vandals defaced statues of the Virgin Mary and set fire to the altar at Medjugorje's Church of St. James early Tuesday, prompting condemnation from Bosnia-Herzegovina's Interreligious Council and calls for prayer for the perpetrator's conversion.Representative Veronica Escobar introduced the "Mount Cristo Rey Protection Act" to block the Trump administration's eminent domain seizure of a century-old New Mexico pilgrimage site for border wall construction, as the Diocese of Las Cruces continues its court battle.Pope Leo XIV named Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco and Bishop Edward Lohse of Kalamazoo to the Vatican's highest court, the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, among seven new members appointed July 25th.Pope Leo XIV urged young Catholics in Peru, Brazil and Portugal to reject complacency and live their faith with "holy rebelliousness," pointing to St. Carlo Acutis as a model of digital-age holiness.French Church and political leaders marked the 10th anniversary of Father Jacques Hamel's murder by Islamist terrorists, with his sister Roseline Hamel reflecting on forgiveness and her unlikely friendship with an attacker's mother.

  5. 5d ago

    Pope Leo Prayers for Peace, Wildfires in France and Spain, New Vatican Nuncio at UN, and More

    Thanks for listening! Let us know what you think. God bless! Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for July 27, 2026. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com. Read the stories in this episode: During his Angelus address in Castel Gandolfo July 26,  Pope Leo XIV renewed his urgent appeals for peace in the Holy Land and across the Middle East during his Angelus address in Castel Gandolfo, expressing deep concern over the escalating violence and calling for an immediate return to dialogue.Religious persecution predominantly affecting Christian communities in Nigeria remains a key concern for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, the commission's new chair told OSV News in a July 24 interview. Pope Leo XIV called for prayers July 26 as massive wildfires rage across Spain and France, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate their homes.Pope Leo XIV has appointed Archbishop Christophe-Zakhia el-Kassis, apostolic nuncio to the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, as the Holy See's new permanent observer to the United Nations in New York.About 300 Catholics gathered July 25 at St. Augustine Church in Philadelphia's Old City for a rare celebration that brought the sights, sounds and prayers of early American Catholic life back to life.

  6. Jul 24

    OpenAI Goes Rogue, Nigerian Sister Speaks After ICE Detention, Venezuela Letters to Pope Leo, and More

    Thanks for listening! Let us know what you think. God bless! Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for July 24, 2026. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com. Read the stories in this episode: A recent OpenAI security incident that saw a test model go rogue may be a sign of more to come, and a call to double down on preventing future attacks, a Catholic expert on artificial intelligence ethics told OSV News.Give those targeted in immigration enforcement operations "the chance to be heard," said a religious sister detained by U.S. Customs and Enforcement agents for several hours en route to Mass June 28, amid an intended third-country deportation effort. Four Catholic journalists have launched an initiative to deliver the personal prayers and reflections of Venezuelan earthquake survivors directly to Pope Leo XIV. Several young adults who spent the summer as "perpetual pilgrims" in the 2026 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage said the journey transformed their faith and strengthened their sense of national unity. Andrea Bocelli will sing for Pope Leo XIV July 29 alongside a more than 160-member children’s choir drawn from the Holy Land, Uganda, and Italy, in a performance organized by his charitable foundation at the Vatican's Borgo Laudato Si' gardens in Castel Gandolfo.

  7. Jul 23

    Venezuela's Bishops on Earthquakes, Priest Murder 10 Years Later, Kansas Priest Charged with Sex Abuse, and More

    Thanks for listening! Let us know what you think. God bless! Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for July 23, 2026. Tue in and visit us online at osvnews.com. Read the stories in this episode: Venezuelan Catholic bishops are urging the faithful to reject claims that the country’s devastating June earthquakes were a form of divine punishment.Ten years after the killing of Father Jacques Hamel shocked France and the world, the Catholic Church in France is preparing to honor his memory with prayer.A Kansas priest and former pastor at several parishes has been arrested on several charges of child sexual abuse.Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche issued updated guidance July 23 on federal protections for religious liberty. Ann Teresa O'Neill, whose confirmed miraculous recovery from acute lymphatic leukemia as a child helped pave the way for the canonization of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, has died at the age of 78.

  8. Jul 22

    Rupnik Vatican Trial Continues, Peru Earthquakes, Kids' Online Safety, and More

    Thanks for listening! Let us know what you think. God bless! Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day forJuly 22, 2026. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com. Read the stories in this episode: The Vatican has pushed back against reports that former Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik has been acquitted in his Vatican criminal trial.Catholic leaders in Peru are rallying emergency aid to those affected by the two earthquakes that struck the mountainous region of Junín, while they work to safeguard national heritage sites damaged as a result.The recent sentencing of a convicted online child predator in San Antonio to a 40-year prison term and renewed safety warnings from federal officials mark a call for parents to double down on protecting their kids in the digital sphere, a Catholic legal scholar told OSV News.Estrella del Paso, a legal aid ministry of the Diocese of El Paso, has exhausted its financial reserves after going seven months without federal reimbursement for its work representing unaccompanied immigrant children.Pope Leo XIV took a road trip pilgrimage with his older brother to the scenic mountainside Sanctuary of the Most Holy Trinity in Vallepietra July 22 before stopping to pray in the Holy Cave in Subiaco, where a young St. Benedict sought refuge from the corruption of Rome in the early sixth century.

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Catch up on the Catholic news of the day with OSV News, featuring top stories from the Vatican, the U.S. and across the world. At OSV News, we've got the Church covered.

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