Big Beautiful Bill, Children and Conflict, Pope Leo and Ukrainian Catholics

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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for July 1, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

Here are the stories in today's newscast: 

• Senate Republicans passed their version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which Catholic bishops have criticized for provisions they called "unconscionable."
• Children are among those who bear "the heaviest toll" in the global rise of armed conflict and "the increasing acceptance of force as a means of resolving disputes," a Vatican diplomat told the United Nations.
• Amid Russia's war on Ukraine, the faith of Ukrainians is being "sorely tested," but God "will have the last word, and life will conquer death," said Pope Leo XIV.
• When Pope Leo XIV gave newly appointed metropolitan archbishops their pallium on the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, he told them it symbolizes their responsibility to care for their people and to promote unity.
• Bishops from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean are urging bold climate action ahead of the COP30 summit, calling the climate crisis "an existential issue" in a joint letter.