Pope Leo's Plans for Africa, Vatican on Pentagon Meeting, Indiana Bishops on Integral Ecology, and More

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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for April 10, 2026. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

Read the stories in this episode:

• Pope Leo XIV will begin his first apostolic journey to Africa on April 13, traveling more than 11,000 miles over 11 days across Algeria, Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea.
• The Holy See Press Office issued a statement April 10 disputing a report by The Free Press several days earlier that the Vatican's top diplomat in the U.S. was brought to the Pentagon in January for a "bitter lecture" about comments from Pope Leo XIV that some senior U.S. defense officials​​ perceived as criticism of the Trump administration. '
• Pope Leo XIV met Olympic and Paralympic athletes from  the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, praising sport as a path to humility, resilience and peace.
• A new pastoral letter from Indiana's Catholic bishops calls on the faithful to see God-given human life and creation as interwoven, and to live "eucharistic lives as we care for both our human community and for God's good world."
• As the Artemis II mission wraps up, OSV News looks at how space exploration has long stirred both curiosity and faith in Catholics.