Venerable Mother Tallon, Religious Freedom Week, Gretchen Crowe Named OSV Publisher, and More
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Maggie Murray of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for June 18, 2026. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.
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- Pope Leo XIV declared Mother Mary Teresa Tallon venerable today, advancing the sainthood cause of the New York-born foundress of the Parish Visitors of Mary Immaculate alongside 20 Spanish Civil War martyrs, in a meeting with the prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints.
- Pope Leo XIV received the board of governors of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in a private Vatican audience today, urging the diverse academic community to be "artisans of true peace" and a beacon of hope in a world increasingly defined by division and pointed rhetoric.
- Ahead of Religious Freedom Week, which runs June 22nd through 29th, a USCCB expert explained that protecting religious liberty is ultimately about safeguarding human dignity — the God-given right of every person to seek God freely and live out their faith in the public square.
- Philadelphia theater professor Darrin Pufall Purdy's painstaking reconstruction of the habits of the Sisters of Charity of New York — interviewing sisters and combing through archives to recover a nearly undocumented piece of Catholic heritage — earned him the commission to costume a 2024 Broadway revival of "Doubt: A Parable."
- OSV News Editor-in-Chief Gretchen R. Crowe has been named publisher of Our Sunday Visitor Inc., becoming the first woman to hold that role in the Catholic organization's 114-year history while continuing to lead OSV News, effective June 22nd.
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