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8 TAKOMA PARK, Md. (OSV News) — As Haitian Catholics often do in challenging times and in everyday life, they turned to Mary following the Supreme Court’s June 25 ruling that the Trump administration can end a program temporarily shielding eligible Haitian and Syrian immigrants living in the U.S. from deportation.

6 (OSV News) — The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage ends July 5 with a closing Mass, procession and celebration in Philadelphia, which will begin with a special video message from Pope Leo XIV.

6 ROME (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV spent what is traditionally his weekly day off on Tuesday issuing a flurry of legislation and appointments June 30, overhauling the Vatican’s financial watchdog agency, revising the governing structure of the Vicariate of Rome and making several appointments in the Roman Curia.

7 WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Vice President JD Vance said during a June 30 interview that he sees some of the Vatican’s views on immigration as “troubling.” Pope Leo XIV has stated that while “every country has a right to determine who and how and when people enter,” in enforcing immigration policy “we have to look for ways of treating people humanely, treating people with the dignity that they have.” President Donald Trump earlier this year lashed out at Pope Leo in a series of social media and...

8 WARSAW, Poland (OSV News) — Four years after Poles welcomed millions of Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s full-scale invasion, Catholic leaders from both countries are urging their peoples not to let historical disputes undo that solidarity as disputes over World War II history inflamed relations between Poland and Ukraine.

12 (OSV News) — Despite a personal appeal from Pope Leo XIV, the Society of St. Pius X went ahead July 1 with the unauthorized consecration of four new bishops at its seminary in Écône, Switzerland, with Mass broadcasted live and thousands of faithful attending. The pope warned in his letter dated June 29 — the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul — that the move would cause a formal schism and deprive followers of lawful, and in some cases valid, access to the sacraments.

13 (OSV News) — A woman religious in McAllen, Texas, told OSV News the “power of prayer” was key to the release of a religious sister detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as she walked to Sunday Mass — but foreign-born religious in the area are now on their guard after the incident. Sister Leticia Ugboaja, a member of the Nigerian-based Daughters of Mary Mother of Mercy, was apprehended and held by ICE agents for several hours June 28.

2 (OSV News) — In one of his more snarky stories about clerical life — it’s called “The Forks” — the American Catholic writer J.F. Powers capsulizes the fraught relationship between a stuffy, self-important pastor and his young curate in a single, prickly sentence: “He found Father Eudex reading The Catholic Worker one day and had not trusted him since.” There was a time when many Catholics, not just stuffy pastors, held the same view of Dorothy Day and her group: dangerous. Some still may.

5 (OSV News) — The Archdiocese of Quebec, two educational institutions and an insurer will jointly pay a sum of $31.5 million to people who said they have been sexually assaulted by a member of the diocesan clergy or pastoral staff under the responsibility of the archdiocese since 1940.

15 (OSV News) — Hours before a June 26 border Mass celebrated by Catholic bishops in Nogales, Arizona, OSV News spoke with Dominican Father Brendan Curran of the Province of St. Albert the Great, regional promoter of justice and peace for the Dominicans of Canada and the United States.