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Back to EpisodesPope Leo South America Visit, Mourning a Mozambique Cardinal, Texas Archbishop on Migrant Dignity, and More
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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Aug. 5, 2026. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.
Read the stories in this episode:
- Pope Leo XIV will make the first apostolic journey of his pontificate to South America Nov. 6-17, visiting 10 cities across Uruguay, Argentina and Peru.
- Returning to his weekly general audiences after a monthlong summer break, Pope Leo XIV urged Catholics to embrace the Liturgy of the Hours more fully in their daily lives, saying the church's public prayer is an antidote to a world shaped by technology, consumerism and an efficiency-driven mindset.
- Pope Leo XIV mourned the death of Cardinal Júlio Duarte Langa, bishop emeritus of Xai-Xai, Mozambique, who died Aug. 3 at age 98 while receiving treatment in a Maputo hospital.
- At "an unprecedented moment" in U.S. immigration policy, Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller of San Antonio is assuring migrants in a new pastoral letter, released Aug. 3, that the Church "will come to you."
- Jason Adkins, executive director and general counsel of the Minnesota Catholic Conference, has been elected president of the National Association of State Catholic Conference Directors, or NASCCD, and will serve a two-year term through August 2028.