Pope Leo Comforts Swiss Fire Families, Nuns Lament Nursing Home Downfall, Pope Leo Puzzle Power, and More

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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Jan. 16, 2026. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

Read the stories in this episode:

• Pope Leo XIV met with families of victims of the deadly Crans-Montana bar fire in the Apostolic Palace Jan. 15, offering consolation and hope after one of the worst tragedies in Swiss history. 
• Ukraine's Roman Catholic community has secured a major breakthrough in Kyiv, gaining the legal right to use the historic St. Nicholas Church for the next 50 years after decades of legal limbo.
• A congregation of Catholic women religious is lamenting the downfall of an acclaimed nursing home it once operated, after severe neglect and endangerment of residents by the current owners prompted Ohio state officials to intervene.
• Capuchin Franciscan Father John Aurilia -- the former assistant to St. Padre Pio whose final interview last October on the Wilmington's Diocese's Catholic Forum broke records as it was viewed nearly 300,000 times -- died Jan. 13 in Wilmington.
• Pope Leo XIV plays the daily online puzzle Wordle -- and his predecessor and namesake, Pope Leo XIII, was also passionate about wordplay, anonymously publishing riddles in Latin.