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

Read the stories in this episode:

1. Vandals defaced statues of the Virgin Mary and set fire to the altar at Medjugorje's Church of St. James early Tuesday, prompting condemnation from Bosnia-Herzegovina's Interreligious Council and calls for prayer for the perpetrator's conversion.
2. Representative Veronica Escobar introduced the "Mount Cristo Rey Protection Act" to block the Trump administration's eminent domain seizure of a century-old New Mexico pilgrimage site for border wall construction, as the Diocese of Las Cruces continues its court battle.
3. Pope Leo XIV named Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco and Bishop Edward Lohse of Kalamazoo to the Vatican's highest court, the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, among seven new members appointed July 25th.
4. Pope Leo XIV urged young Catholics in Peru, Brazil and Portugal to reject complacency and live their faith with "holy rebelliousness," pointing to St. Carlo Acutis as a model of digital-age holiness.
5. French Church and political leaders marked the 10th anniversary of Father Jacques Hamel's murder by Islamist terrorists, with his sister Roseline Hamel reflecting on forgiveness and her unlikely friendship with an attacker's mother.