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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 April 9, 2025. In this episode: Brian Burch of CatholicVote, President Donald Trump's nominee for ambassador to the Holy See, defended the administration's foreign aid cuts during a Senate hearing yesterday. Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, the Holy See&ap...

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 April 8, 2025. In this episode: Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, and named Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City, Missouri, as his successor. Archbishop Bashar Warda of Irbil, Iraq, "catego...

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 April 7, 2025. In this episode: The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said it would not renew its cooperative agreements with the federal government related to children's services and refugee support, following Trump administration crackdowns on immigrat...

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 April 4, 2025. In this episode: Disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, subject of long-running allegations of sexual abuse against minors and adults, has died at age 94. Hundreds gather to mourn the shooting death of a Kansas priest, a loss for which &qu...

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 April 3, 2025. In this episode: The Supreme Court hears oral argument in a case that could determine if Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider, can use public funds in states that have restricted abortion. The Catholic Church has since...

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 April 2, 2025. In this episode: On the 20th anniversary of St. John Paul II's death, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin prays to the late pope to "bless this lacerated and disoriented humanity, that it may find the way back to its dign...

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 April 1, 2025. In this episode: Pope Francis prays for victims of a 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar, compounding that nation's humanitarian crisis and civil war. A number of youth tell OSV News they're excited about the upcoming canonization of Bl...

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 March 31, 2025. In this episode: An Arizona family says their toddler was miraculously saved from death through prayers to Blessed Michael McGivney and other intercessors. The Supreme Court heard oral argument in a case brought by Catholic Charities of the Dioc...

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 March 28, 2025. In this episode: Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Migration, shares his thoughts on what's at stake in the nation's response to migrants. Amid the 2025 Jubilee Year, C...

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 March 27, 2025. In this episode: A bipartisan U.S. government commission urges the nation to uphold its role as a promoter of religious freedom worldwide. Catholic and other Christian communities in Turkey express concern as protests over the arrest of a politi...

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 March 26, 2025. In this episode: A year after the deadly Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, the Catholic community continues to rally around all those affected. The Supreme Court upholds a Biden administration regulation on ghost guns. The principal of a Catholi...

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 March 25, 2025. In this episode: The Archdiocese of Indianapolis announced scientific testing has ruled out an alleged Eucharistic miracle. Several diocesan administrators of federal school meals programs told OSV News funding cuts could leave kids hungry while...

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 March 24, 2025. In this episode: Pope Francis greets crowds from the balcony of Rome's Gemelli hospital shortly before heading home after a more than five-week stay. Vatican doctors double down on offering free treatment for Rome's impoverished, in th...

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 March 21, 2025. In this episode: Satanists swear under oath in a Kansas court they don't have possession of a consecrated host and consecrated wine they intend to desecrate at a planned March 28 "black mass." Pope Francis' health shows signs...

Thanks for listening! Let us know what you think. God bless! Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news for March 20, 2025. In this episode: March Madness has begun, and Catholic teams are in the mix. A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's order banning transgender persons from the military. Faithful in Myanmar mourn as that nation's military junta bur...

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 March 19, 2025. In this episode: Europe's Catholic bishops express concerns over Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine and the conflict's geopolitical implications. A Nigerian seminarian has been killed, part of an escalating trend of slayings of clerg...

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 March 18, 2025. In this episode: Texas' attorney general charges a Houston-area midwife for illegally performing abortions under that state's near total ban. A Wichita, Kansas, church has been vandalized and a 23-year-old suspect is in custody, with t...

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 March 17, 2025. In this episode: The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops continues its legal battle against the Trump administration following the latter's cancellation of a refugee resettlement contract. Mexico's Catholic bishops call for justice and...

Thanks for listening! Let us know what you think. God bless! Gina Christian catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for March 14, 2025. In this episode: Kansas Catholics are outraged as a satanic group will be permitted to perform a "black mass" outside that state's Capitol March 28, a move being countered with public statements and prayers. Archbishop Alexander K. Sample of...

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 March 13, 2025. In this episode: Pope Francis marks the 12th anniversary of his papal election, celebrating with a cake and hundreds of cards while on the mend in Rome's Gemelli hospital for severe respiratory illness. Papal biographer Austin Ivereigh refl...

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 March 12, 2025. In this episode: Catholic experts are keeping an eye on how the Trump administration's plan to cut the Department of Education by 50% will impact Catholic schools. Cardinal Robert McElroy calls for hope and compassion during his March 11 in...

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 March 11, 2025. In this episode: Pope Francis continues to show progress in recovering from severe respiratory issues, even participating by video link in a Vatican Lenten retreat, although he remains hospitalized. The number of Australia's Catholics is se...

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 March 10, 2025. In this episode: Dr. Tim Millea of the Catholic Medical Association told OSV News that efforts to promote Restorative Reproductive Medicine as an alternative to infertility interventions such as IVF, which is against church teaching, require gre...

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 March 7, 2025. In this episode: Catholic anti-death penalty advocates call for clemency for a South Carolina death row inmate set to be executed by firing squad. Pope Francis remains in the hospital in stable but "complex" condition, with his prognosi...

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 Thursday, March 6, 2025. In this episode: Pope Francis releases a short audio message from the hospital, which was read before tonight's recitation of the rosary in St. Peter's Square for his recovery. Speaking in Spanish and with some difficulty, the...