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Thanks for listening! Let us know what you think. God bless! Gina Christian catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for June 10, 2025. In this episode: Catholic bishops in Austria call for prayer as a school shooting kills 9 and injures 12. Parishes in the Diocese of Buffalo, New York, will soon begin paying a total of $80 million towards the diocese's $150 million bankruptcy settlemen...

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 June 9, 2025. In this episode: Pope Leo XIV, speaking in his Pentecost homily, said the Holy Spirit "breaks down barriers and tears down the walls of indifference and hatred." Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles is calling for prayer, while urging &q...

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 June 6, 2025. In this episode: As the state of Florida moves forward with another scheduled execution on June 10, retired Bishop Felipe Estévez of St. Augustine is calling the death penalty "a failure of mercy and moral imagination." The Catholic bish...

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 June 5, 2025. In this episode: The Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of the Catholic Charities Bureau of the Diocese of Superior, Wisconsin in a case affirming the agency's religious identity. Amid the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, s...

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 June 4, 2025. In this episode: The Trump administration announced that it would revoke Biden-era guidance to the nation's hospitals directing them to perform abortions in emergency circumstances even in states that banned the procedure. God loves every per...

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 June 3, 2025. In this episode: Catholics are being urged to attend National Eucharistic Pilgrimage events in large numbers as anti-Catholic protests grow along the 3,340-mile St. Katharine Drexel Route. For Catholics, June is traditionally the month devoted to...

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 June 2, 2025. In this episode: Pope Leo XIV describes families as the cradle of humanity's future. Polish nuns martyred during the Second World War are beatified. The Diocese of Charlotte faces backlash after a leaked pastoral letter and a decree on the pr...

Thanks for listening! Let us know what you think. God bless! Gina Christian catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for May 30, 2025. In this episode: The Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump's administration to end deportation protections for more than 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela while an appeal of the president's order is still pendi...

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 May 29, 2025. In this episode: Washington State's Catholic bishops sue over a new law that would make clergy mandated reporters and violate the seal of confession. Catholic immigration experts say that the Trump administration's deportation of seven m...

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 May 28, 2025. In this episode: The Supreme Court turned down the Apache Stronghold organization's request to plead for the protection of sacred lands from mining, in a case with implications for religious freedom. The Holy See's ambassador to the U.N....

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 May 27, 2025. In this episode: As the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision -- which sent the issue of abortion back to the states -- reaches its third anniversary, Catholic leaders are stressing foster care and adoption as urgent pro-life issues. The head Cathol...

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 May 22, 2205. In this episode: Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Bishop Michael Burbidge are among Catholic leaders calling for prayers after a young couple, both Israeli embassy staffers, was slain May 21 outside the Capital Jewish Museum in an apparent antisemitic a...

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 May 21, 2025. In this episode: Father Mike Schmitz, hit podcaster and youth minister, has a new "Parables" tour coming to a city near you. Delaware becomes the 11th state to legalize assisted suicide, which is gravely contrary to Church teaching. Bish...

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 May 20, 2025. In this episode: President Donald Trump said prospects for talks between Ukraine and Russia at the Vatican look promising. The Take It Down Act, signed by Trump yesterday, will crack down on online sexual exploitation, with first lady Melania Trum...

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 May 19, 2025. In this episode: Following his papal inauguration yesterday, Pope Leo XIV is getting straight to work, holding meetings with interfaith and ecumenical leaders, as well as with U.S. Vice President JD Vance, who passed along a letter from President...

Thanks for listening! Let us know what you think. God bless! Gina Christian talks with OSV News editor-in-chief Gretchen Crowe and international editor Paulina Guzik -- who have been on the ground in Rome since the death of Pope Francis -- about the May 18, 2025 inauguration Mass of Pope Leo XIV -- what his homily, remarks and gestures might indicate about the future of his papacy, and what the pa...

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 May 16, 2025. In this episode: Catholic leaders in the Middle East call for humanitarian aid, as U.S. President Donald Trump signs high-dollar arms and trade deals with Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Senate confirmation of Trump's pick for Holy See ambassador sta...

Thanks for listening! Let us know what you think. God bless! Pope Leo XIV will be inaugurated on May 18, 2025. But what's a papal inauguration, and how did this ritual come about? Find out as Gina Christian of OSV News asks church historian Thomas Noble, professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, to recount the story. Tune in and visit us at osvnews.com . Stay up to date on Pope Leo...

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 May 15, 2025. In this episode: The Supreme Court hears oral argument on denying birthright citizenship for some children born in the U.S. to non-citizen parents; an immigration crackdown in Nashville, Tenn., has emptied pews at several Spanish-language parishes...

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 May 14, 2025. In this episode: Catholic anti-death penalty advocates hope that Pope Leo XIV will uphold Pope Francis' legacy on calling for the abolition of capital punishment. The nation's Catholic bishops have released an updated version of their 20...

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 May 13, 2025. In this episode: A look at Pope Leo XIV's Chicago roots, with his brother Louis Prevost sharing what it was like to grow up with a future leader of the Catholic Church. The rector of a Rome pontifical university where the pope-to-be took his...

Thanks for listening! Let us know what you think. God bless! Gina Christian talks with OSV News editor-in-chief Gretchen Crowe, international editor Paulina Guzik, and contributor Michael Heinlein -- all on the ground in Rome -- about the first days of Pope Leo XIV, and what they might indicate about the future of his papacy. Tune in and visit us online to read all our new pope coverage at osvnews...

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 May 12, 2025. In this episode: Pope Leo XIV meets with media in a special May 12 audience, calling for imprisoned journalists to be freed and urging media members to be peacemakers, avoiding bias. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks with the new pope b...

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 May 9, 2025 -- the first full day for Pope Leo XIV's papacy. Find out more about the new pope, and what the Church and the world think of him. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com . Stay up to date on the papal transition by visiting our OSV News liv...

Thanks for listening! Let us know what you think. God bless! Gina Christian talks with OSV News editor-in-chief Gretchen Crowe and international editor Paulina Guzik, both in Rome, about the moment when the Catholic Church and the world learned who had become the 267th pope, the U.S.-born Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost. Tune in and visit us online to read all our new pope c...