Alligator Alcatraz Mass, VA and Abortion, Pope Leo XIV at Youth Jubilee, and More

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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Aug. 4, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

In this episode:

• The Archdiocese of Miami celebrated the first Mass for detainees at "Alligator Alcatraz," the Trump administration's controversial immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades.
  
  
• Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, head of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, praised the Trump administration's move to return to a policy of fully excluding abortion and abortion-counseling from covered health benefits for veterans and their dependents.
  
  
• The fullness of life depends on how much one joyfully welcomes and shares in life while also living with a constant yearning for those things that only come from God, Pope Leo XIV told young people.
  
  
• In Beirut, Lebanon's Catholic Church marked the fifth anniversary of the catastrophic 2020 port explosion with a solemn memorial Mass and vigil.
  
  
• Eighty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a small Franciscan monastery in Nagasaki still stands as a quiet witness to peace.