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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.  

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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Aug. 1, 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 July 31, 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 July 30, 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 July 29, 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 July 28, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

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Peter Jesserer Smith, national news editor of OSV News, filling in for Gina Christian, catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for July 25, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

In this episode:

• A federal appeals court has dealt another blow to President Donald Trump's executive order to end the practice of birthright citizenship.
• A lineup of Los Angeles business leaders joined Archbishop José H. Gomez to unveil a new fund aimed at helping families affected by immigration raids.
• A Chicago woman’s chance encounter in Assisi, Italy, has brought a striking mosaic of Blessed Carlo Acutis to a parish named for him.
•  As the church prepares to mark the World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly on July 27, meet 88-year-old Andrew Goh -- a scooter-riding catechist in Singapore who has spent 34 years bringing the faith to the elderly and housebound.
• With their courage and tenacity in the pursuit of happiness, migrants and refugees are "messengers of hope," Pope Leo XIV in his message for the celebration of the World Day of Migrants and Refugees.

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Peter Jesserer Smith, national news editor of OSV News, filling in for Gina Christian, catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for July 24, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

In this episode:

• Florida's senior bishop is pressing local, state and federal authorities for permission to bring Catholic pastoral care to the Alligator Alcatraz immigrant detention center.
• The Knights of Peter Claver concluded their national convention, held July 20-23, with a summons to care for people within and beyond the nation's borders. 
• An Israeli military investigation concluded that a deadly strike on Gaza's Holy Family Parish compound was caused by an errant mortar round, not an intentional attack.
• Pro-life leaders are alarmed that Ireland has recorded its highest number of abortions since legalizing the procedure in 2019. 
• In Poland, thousands of young people walked in prayer and song to the Jasna Góra shrine in Częstochowa on July 19 to mark the 25th anniversary of a foundation that is a living tribute to St. John Paul II.

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Peter Jesserer Smith, national news editor of OSV News, filling in for Gina Christian, catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for July 23, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

In this episode:

•  The Trump administration on July 22 said the United States would withdraw from the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, a group that has partnered with the Holy See on human development and cultural heritage projects. 
  
  
• Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, delivered a statement at the general debate of the U.N. Economic and Social Council's High-Level Political Forum, saying its founding principles are as vital today as ever.
  
  
• Close to 800 young men from the Archdiocese of New York have responded to a call for interest in the priestly life, according to the archdiocese's director of vocations.
  
  
• More than half a million young people from 146 countries are set to arrive July 28 for the start of the weeklong Jubilee of Youth, and include the exposition of the relics of Blesseds Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis for veneration.
  
  
• Iran's Catholic community is leaning on prayer and hope after the recent 12-day war between Israel and Iran shook the region, Cardinal Dominique Mathieu of Tehran-Isfahan told OSV News.

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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for July 22, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

In this episode:

• A federal judge on July 21 extended an order blocking (for some) a provision that stopped Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid payments for a year.
  
  
• After witnessing devastation in Gaza, two of the Holy Land’s top Christian leaders say they found something stronger than destruction -- "the dignity of the human spirit." 
  
  
• In southern Syria, Christian and Druze leaders are pleading for international protection after a week of sectarian violence killed over 1,000 people in Sweida.
  
  
•  The Diocese of Galway has quietly removed the remains of former Bishop Eamonn Casey from Galway Cathedral, following mounting outrage over child abuse allegations.
  
  
• Peering at the sunlit skies through a Vatican-owned space telescope and calling the last surviving member of the Apollo 11 spaceflight mission was how Pope Leo XIV celebrated the anniversary of the first crewed moon landing.