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

Read the stories in this episode:

1. Andy Burnham is poised to become the United Kingdom's first publicly Catholic prime minister later this month, drawing cautious hope from Church leaders who praise his appreciation for Catholic social teaching while questioning whether his liberal positions on abortion, assisted suicide and marriage reflect his stated faith.
2. Bishop Yunan Tombe Trille Kuku Andali has chosen to remain in the besieged Sudanese city of El-Obeid — despite daily shelling, drone strikes, and a previous near-fatal assault by paramilitary forces — as a courageous witness to the small Christian community still sheltering there.
3. Women who say they were harmed by the abortion pill sent a July 8th letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche urging him to side with states challenging the Biden-era policy permitting mifepristone to be dispensed by mail, as frustration grows over the Trump DOJ's repeated moves to pause those state lawsuits.
4. Norway's Bishop Fredrik Hansen announced Tuesday that a sainthood cause will open this fall for Nobel Prize-winning author Sigrid Undset — a convert who found Catholicism through medieval research, became a Third Order Dominican, and publicly championed Norwegian resistance to Nazism during World War II.
5. Netflix's new eight-episode adaptation of "Little House on the Prairie," premiering today, embraces the faith, family and community themes of the original while also exploring the Catholic-influenced spiritual life of the Osage people and referencing a real-life Jesuit missionary who served them in the 19th century.