Planned Parenthood's Partial Defund, Gaza Visit, Pope Leo XIV and Buzz Aldrin, and More

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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for July 22, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

In this episode:

• A federal judge on July 21 extended an order blocking (for some) a provision that stopped Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid payments for a year.
  
  
• After witnessing devastation in Gaza, two of the Holy Land’s top Christian leaders say they found something stronger than destruction -- "the dignity of the human spirit." 
  
  
• In southern Syria, Christian and Druze leaders are pleading for international protection after a week of sectarian violence killed over 1,000 people in Sweida.
  
  
•  The Diocese of Galway has quietly removed the remains of former Bishop Eamonn Casey from Galway Cathedral, following mounting outrage over child abuse allegations.
  
  
• Peering at the sunlit skies through a Vatican-owned space telescope and calling the last surviving member of the Apollo 11 spaceflight mission was how Pope Leo XIV celebrated the anniversary of the first crewed moon landing.