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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Sept. 9, 2026. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

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• The U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 8 declined a case from a New York Catholic woman seeking to send her son to kindergarten without receiving the vaccines the state requires to attend public school.
• Christians can help overcome the many distortions and lies about the true dignity of every human person and, in doing so, promote and defend human life, Pope Leo XIV said.
• Pope Leo XIV urged Church leaders linked to the Focolare movement to make "giving witness to unity" a priority in a world increasingly marked by polarization and fragmentation. 
• Andrzej Poczobut, a Belarusian Catholic dissident and journalist, returned to Belarus Sept. 8 after five months in exile in Poland, saying he was prepared to risk arrest and urging Western Catholics to remember Christians imprisoned by the Alexander Lukashenka regime.
• Pope Leo XIV’s Sept. 25-28 visit to France will bring him from Paris to Lourdes and Metz, with major public events, meetings with abuse survivors and a call to protect human dignity, French bishops said. 

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Maggie Murray of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Sept. 8, 2026. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

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1. Cardinal Robert McElroy warned at a Labor Day Mass in Washington that artificial intelligence will radically reshape the labor market within twenty years, urging that workers have a genuine voice in decisions about automation.
2. Archbishop Stefan Hesse of Hamburg compared the U.S.-Mexico border fortifications to the Berlin Wall after a weeklong solidarity visit, warning that treating migration purely as a security threat erodes human dignity.
3. Pope Leo XIV returned to the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Counsel in Genazzano, a place of lifelong personal devotion, asking Mary's help to bring God's word to light through "courageous and wise decisions."
4. The Peruvian port city of Callao is building a nearly 46-foot statue of Pope Leo XIV — the world's largest monument to the pontiff — ahead of his November visit to the country where he holds citizenship.
5. The John Paul II Vatican Foundation will mark its 45th anniversary in Rome this October with a papal audience, highlighting scholarship work that has supported more than 1,100 students in Poland.

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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Sept. 4, 2026. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

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• Pope Leo XIV urged scholars from Oxford University's Oriel College to "seek the truth courageously" during a Sept. 4 audience at the Vatican, pointing to St. John Henry Newman as a model of faith and scholarship.
• Caritas Nepal's leader is urging global action on climate justice after catastrophic flooding in Nepal claimed more than 1,100 lives and left thousands missing.
• Women must be able to "exercise their leadership" and become "artisans of peace and guardians of life," as the global community fractures and conflicts increase, the Vatican told the United Nations. 
• A network of Catholic priests with more than 2,200 members worldwide has joined growing calls to describe the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as genocide, citing widespread civilian deaths, displacement and destruction in the Palestinian enclave. 
• Catholics in the Diocese of Rochester will soon have a physical link to Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. A first-class relic of the famed cleric, who led the Rochester Diocese as its sixth bishop (1966-69), is being given to the diocese by Archbishop Sheen's native Diocese of Peoria. 

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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Sept. 3, 2026. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

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• Pope Leo XIV on Sept. 3 encouraged Catholic bishops serving in the Middle East to remain faithful to the Gospel despite the challenges of leading often small Christian communities, praising their "precious presence" across the region.
• The International Theological Commission has released a new document calling for ecological conversion and proposing the term "sin against creation and the Creator" as a more precise way of describing environmental wrongdoing.
• Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami described the apparent suicide of a Haitian student in Ohio as “a death of despair,” coming amid the loss of deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the United States.
• Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago, two orders of Catholic nuns and a pharmacist sued Illinois Sept. 3 over the state's physician-assisted suicide law, which permits physicians to aid terminally ill adults in dying by suicide. 
• British supporters of the traditional Latin Mass are pointing to growing youth participation as a sign of renewed interest in the Catholic faith.

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Maggie Murray of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for September 2, 2026. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

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1. Pope Leo XIV opened the Season of Creation with Mass at Castel Gandolfo, urging the faithful to "hear the melodious voice of creation" and insisting "it is not yet too late" to repair humanity's relationship with the environment.
2. A Montreal Superior Court judge ruled sexual misconduct allegations against Cardinal Marc Ouellet were false and ordered his accuser to pay $100,000 in damages, which the cardinal has pledged to donate to organizations fighting abuse of Indigenous Canadians.
3. American Catholic teacher Sarah Morse reached an out-of-court settlement with a Scottish school that fired her after she told students she opposed abortion because of her faith.
4. Archbishop Shelton Fabre marked Labor Day by urging Catholics to be "builders of communion" and to safeguard human dignity as artificial intelligence reshapes the economy and deepens anxieties among low-wage workers and young people.
5. Voters in multiple states will decide November ballot measures on abortion, gender policy and housing, including Missouri's Amendment 3, which the state's Catholic conference views with cautious optimism.

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Maggie Murray of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for September 1, 2026. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

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1. Pope Leo XIV dedicated his September prayer intention to the care of water as the Season of Creation begins, calling access to safe drinking water a fundamental human right amid a global crisis affecting 2.1 billion people.
2. The school at Holy Family Parish in Gaza reopened for roughly 1,000 students for the first time since the war began, with Bishop William Shomali calling it a sign that Christian families "are not forgotten and will not be abandoned."
3. Senator Bill Cassidy released a report calling on the FDA to reinstate in-person dispensing requirements for mifepristone and accusing abortion drug manufacturers of failing to meet their legal safety obligations.
4. In his full World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation message, Pope Leo XIV argued that war and environmental destruction share a common root in the human heart, requiring conversion rather than structural reform alone.
5. Nashville seminarians in the propaedeutic stage of formation spent their summer living in tents and working at a Middle Tennessee farm, blending manual labor with morning prayer, silent meals, Eucharistic adoration and daily Mass.

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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Aug. 31, 2026. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com

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• Bishop Joseph C. Bambera, head of the U.S. bishop's committee on ecumenical and interreligious affairs, has expressed his robust support for biblical scholar Amy-Jill Levine, as she faces antisemitic backlash for her recent appointment as the first Jewish president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America.
• Pope Leo XIV has issued a new document that gives the synod of bishops of the Eastern Catholic Church the power to remove a patriarch from office, if their relationship be, as Vatican News reports, "irreparably compromised for serious reasons." 
• Whatever the injustice or injury, do not revert to hatred or violence, since only love, hope, forgiveness and respect will protect and promote human dignity, Pope Leo XIV told the faithful in an Aug. 29 homily. 
• Pope Leo XIV ordered the Holy See's communications office to stop using artwork by Father Marko Rupnik, according to a French Bishop Jean-Marc Micas of Tarbes and Lourdes. 
• Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore dedicated and blessed retreat house in Washington, D.C., adjacent to St. John Paul II National Shrine, with both projects initiatives of the Knights of Columbus.

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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Aug. 28, 2026. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

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• The Department of Justice said today the FBI "took minimal corrective action" after a controversial leaked memo discussed "radical traditionalist" Catholics.
• "We are stronger when we do this work together," biblical scholar Amy-Jill Levine, the first Jewish president of the Catholic Biblical Association, told OSV News amid antisemitic backlash to her appointment.
• A Catholic legal scholar told OSV News that Meta's major $18 billion settlement to resolve claims about its platforms' impact on kids and teens could mark an important step toward greater accountability for social media companies -- but a federal law would be even more effective.  
• Maronite Bishop A. Elias Zaidan, chair of the U.S. Catholic Bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace, is calling on the international community to step up aid after devastating torrents of water and mud raged along the Nepal-China border Aug. 26, killing close to 400 with almost  2,000 still missing. 
• Pope Leo XIV met with a U.S. delegation of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul on Friday, urging members to live out their faith through direct service to the poor.

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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Aug. 27, 2026. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

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• Pope Leo XIV has expressed deep sorrow following a catastrophic glacial collapse along the Nepal-China border that triggered massive flash floods and mudslides, killing almost 400 people so far, with more than 1,400 reported missing.
• Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda is encouraging the faithful of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and all community members to be "beacons of light" at the one-year mark of a fatal shooting during an all-school Mass at Annunciation School and Church in Minneapolis.
• The Thomas More Society announced U.S. District Court Judge Franklin Valderrama on Aug. 21 placed the temporary restraining order on Illinois' End of Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act for specific individuals.
• Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, Vatican secretary for relations with states, used a visit to Moscow to press for an end to Russia's war in Ukraine, urging negotiations backed by the international community. 
• The Diocese of Knoxville, Tennessee, is remembering the late Dolly Parton -- whose career as a singer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman and philanthropist spanned decades -- as "one of our own."

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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Aug. 26, 2026. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

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• Pope Leo XIV on Aug. 25 appointed Knights of Columbus Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly as a member of the Vatican Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life, adding the leader of the world's largest Catholic fraternal organization to a body that helps guide the Church's outreach to laypeople, families and young people.
• Hundreds of faith leaders and organizations urged the Trump administration to extend Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador before it expires in September.
• Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago has reinstated Father Michael Pfleger, known for his longtime social justice ministry, as pastor of St. Sabina Parish after an inquiry cleared the cleric of abuse allegations.
• Spanish Catholics are marking twin anniversaries tied to St. John of the Cross, with renewed public interest in the 16th-century mystic, poet and reformer drawing pilgrims, scholars and visitors to sites across Spain.
• Through the tragedy of losing a loved one, a Washington state family found themselves in a dark place -- but it was there the Sacred Heart shone.