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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Aug. 15, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

In this episode:

• In Colorado, a teen who died trying to stop a school shooting may be the subject of a sainthood cause. 
  
  
• Some immigrant religious workers are facing legal limbo, and Catholic advocates are pushing the Trump administration to address the backlog in their visa category. 
  
  
• Pope Leo XIV will have a "real-time digital encounter" with participants attending the National Catholic Youth Conference this fall. 
  
  
• Mary's "yes" to God, to life and to love continues "in the martyrs of our time, in witnesses of faith and justice, of gentleness and peace," Pope Leo XIV said as he celebrated Mass on the feast of Mary's Assumption into heaven. 
  
  
• As the calendar marks 100 days of Pope Leo XIV's papacy Aug. 16, experts are scrutinizing his words and actions in hopes of pinpointing his leadership style, priorities and vision for the church's future. 

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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Aug. 14, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Aug. 13, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Aug. 12, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

In this episode:

• President Donald Trump said Aug. 11 he will place the District of Columbia's Metropolitan Police Department "under direct federal control," activate the National Guard, and "get rid of the slums" in what he called an effort to combat crime in Washington.
  
  
• About a decade after the Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, the justices have been directly asked to overturn that ruling in a case they will have to decide whether or not to take up in the fall. 
  
  
• In largely Latino communities across Southern California shaken by weeks of immigration enforcement raids on city sidewalks and local businesses, fear has forced unauthorized immigrants inside -- but Catholic parishes throughout the Archdiocese of Los Angeles have gotten creative in looking for ways to help hurting families.
  
  
• A Canadian court has ruled a Basilian priest can continue his civil suit against fellow Basilian Father Thomas Rosica and the Basilian Fathers of Toronto. The plaintiff, Father Michael Bechard, is seeking damages for alleged sexual abuse by Father Rosica, who denies the allegations. 
  
  
• The Spanish bishops' conference was criticized by the head of the far-right VOX party after the church raised concerns over a local measure that would restrict Muslim religious celebrations.

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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Aug. 11, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

In this episode:

• As U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin prepared to meet in Alaska Aug. 15, Pope Leo XIV prayed world leaders would recognize the impact their actions have on people.
  
  
• Catholics have lauded the recent signing of a state law that makes it a felony to procure sex from a 16- or 17-year-old minor in California. 
  
  
• Ukrainian child advocate Mykola Kuleba is pleading for the Vatican's assistance, after publicly highlighting what he said was one of several databases used by Russian occupation officials to market abducted Ukrainian children to Russian foster and adoption families. 
  
  
• In El Salvador, Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas used the country's biggest Catholic feast to deliver two bold appeals to lawmakers: scrap a law reopening mining, and restore the constitutional ban on presidential reelection. 
  
  
• Pope Leo XIV approved expanded benefits for Vatican employees with children, a process begun by his predecessor, the late Pope Francis.

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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Aug. 8, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

• A sharp drop in the U.S. fertility rate has Catholic experts urging a fresh look at marriage. 
  
  
• For the first time in its 175-year history, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis brought together representatives of over 40 evangelization apostolates and mission groups to ask a vital question: What does it mean to be a missionary disciple?
  
  
•  Canada's Catholic bishops are calling for urgent debt forgiveness and environmental justice in a new pastoral letter titled "Forgive Us Our Debts."
  
  
• The Irish government said it's leaving "no stone unturned" in the effort to secure the safe release of kidnapped Irish lay missionary Gena Heraty.
  
  
• Dr. Takashi Nagai, a Japanese Catholic convert, atomic bomb survivor and medical hero, is getting renewed attention as his cause for sainthood progresses.

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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Aug. 7, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Aug. 6, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Aug. 5, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

• A longtime Irish missionary in Haiti has been kidnapped in what may be a targeted attack amid that nation's long-running armed gang violence and instability.
  
  
• Peace and nuclear disarmament begin in the heart, said the head of the U.S. Catholic bishops.
  
  
• The scars still borne by survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and still visible on the cities' streets and buildings are a plea to pursue peace and disarmament, Pope Leo XIV said.
  
  
• Two Catholic nuns and an Indigenous youth accused of human trafficking and forced conversion in central India are out on bail.
  
  
• Pope Leo XIV visited a Spanish teenager who had to be hospitalized during the Jubilee of Youth and prayed with and spoke to the family.

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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Aug. 4, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

In this episode:

• The Archdiocese of Miami celebrated the first Mass for detainees at "Alligator Alcatraz," the Trump administration's controversial immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades.
  
  
• Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, head of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, praised the Trump administration's move to return to a policy of fully excluding abortion and abortion-counseling from covered health benefits for veterans and their dependents.
  
  
• The fullness of life depends on how much one joyfully welcomes and shares in life while also living with a constant yearning for those things that only come from God, Pope Leo XIV told young people.
  
  
• In Beirut, Lebanon's Catholic Church marked the fifth anniversary of the catastrophic 2020 port explosion with a solemn memorial Mass and vigil.
  
  
• Eighty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a small Franciscan monastery in Nagasaki still stands as a quiet witness to peace.