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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Oct. 30, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

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Peter Jesserer Smith, national news editor of OSV News, catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Oct. 28, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

In this episode:

• The U.S. bishops urged lawmakers to fund federal food assistance before a looming deadline risks disrupting benefits for more than 40 million people. 
  
  
• At a time when so many people and the planet are suffering, the world's religions need to come together to promote truth, compassion, reconciliation, justice and peace, Pope Leo XIV said.
  
  
• Catholic leaders are raising alarms after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces claimed to have captured Sudanese El-Fasher, the besieged capital of North Darfur.
  
  
• President Donald Trump's ceasefire agreement in Gaza was tested as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military to conduct strikes in Gaza after his government alleged Hamas violated a White House-backed ceasefire agreement. 
  
  
• Ahead of a new translation of the Liturgy of the Hours, liturgical experts are encouraging parishes and other Catholic communities to embrace this public prayer of the whole church.

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Peter Jesserer Smith, national news editor of OSV News, catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Oct. 28, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

In this episode:

• As Hurricane Melissa approached Jamaica, OSV News spoke with one of the island's bishops who stressed the need to "be grounded in a faith that truly allows us to know that God is with us." 
•  It will be a momentous day for education and faith at University of Oxford when on Nov. 1, St. John Henry Newman will be formally proclaimed a doctor of the church by Pope Leo XIV.
• "Nostra Aetate," a landmark Catholic document credited with igniting a revolution in Catholic-Jewish relations over the decades, has turned 60.
• The world is thirsting for peace and for an end to abuses of power and indifference to the rule of law, Pope Leo XIV said at an international gathering for peace. 
• What began as a joyful pilgrimage to the Jubilee of Youth has become a test of faith for 15-year-old Ignacio Gonzálvez of Spain. 

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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Oct. 27, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

• The Vatican released the itinerary for Pope Leo's first foreign trip, which commemorates the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea and its Creed, as well as reaffirming hopes for peace in the Middle East. 
  
  
•  The supreme rule in the Catholic Church is love, which compels all of the faithful to serve, not to judge, exclude or dominate others, Pope Leo XIV said. 
  
  
• On Nov. 1, Pope Leo XIV will proclaim St. John Henry Newman the newest doctor of the church: Here's what that means. 
  
  
•  What began as a year of missionary service has turned into a mission for justice for a Seton Hall graduate in Taiwan.
  
  
• The Archdiocese of San Antonio is speaking out after the GoFundMe company -- which provides a digital platform for online fundraising -- created donation pages on its behalf without the archdiocese's approval.

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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Oct. 24, 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 Oct.  23, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

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Peter Jesserer Smith of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Oct. 22, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

In this episode:

• A coalition of Catholic organizations held prayer vigils across the country on Oct. 22 for what organizers called "a national day of public witness for our immigrant brothers and sisters."
  
  
• Wisconsin's attorney general has asked the state's high court to consider invalidating a key religious exemption to the state's unemployment program that has been used by faith-based organizations across Wisconsin and upheld unanimously by the U.S. Supreme Court. 
  
  
• Pope Leo XIV has appointed Archbishop-designate Josef Grünwidl as the next archbishop of Vienna, a priest known for his pastoral approach who recently voiced support for deeper dialogue on the role of women and giving bishops the option of ordaining married men to the priesthood. 
  
  
• Lebanon is preparing with great anticipation for Pope Leo XIV's first apostolic visit abroad, where he will come to their country as a pilgrim of peace. 
  
  
• Pope Leo XIV will issue a document on Catholic education Oct. 28, where he will also name St. John Henry Newman "co-patron" of Catholic education. 

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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Oct. 21, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

In this episode:

• The U.S. Army said religious support contracts for Army chapels would be "reexamined" after Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services raised alarm about their cancellation.
  
  
• Annunciation families are discussing what can be done to prevent school shootings like what they experienced from happening again. 
  
  
• Religious freedom is not only a fundamental and essential human right, "it is also a pathway to truth and deeper communion with God and neighbor," said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state.
  
  
• In a major political shift, Bolivia has elected a centrist senator, Rodrigo Paz, as its new president, ending 20 years of rule by the socialist Movement Toward Socialism party. Bolivia's bishops welcomed the peaceful vote.
  
  
• Coffee shops associated with Catholic churches and organizations are opening around the country in order to build community and share God's love.

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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Oct. 20, 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 Oct. 17, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.