Catholic ICE Prayer Vigils, Next Vienna Archbishop, New Co-Patron of Education, and More
Update: 2025-10-23
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Peter Jesserer Smith of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Oct. 22, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.
In this episode:
- A coalition of Catholic organizations held prayer vigils across the country on Oct. 22 for what organizers called "a national day of public witness for our immigrant brothers and sisters."
- Wisconsin's attorney general has asked the state's high court to consider invalidating a key religious exemption to the state's unemployment program that has been used by faith-based organizations across Wisconsin and upheld unanimously by the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Pope Leo XIV has appointed Archbishop-designate Josef Grünwidl as the next archbishop of Vienna, a priest known for his pastoral approach who recently voiced support for deeper dialogue on the role of women and giving bishops the option of ordaining married men to the priesthood.
- Lebanon is preparing with great anticipation for Pope Leo XIV's first apostolic visit abroad, where he will come to their country as a pilgrim of peace.
- Pope Leo XIV will issue a document on Catholic education Oct. 28, where he will also name St. John Henry Newman "co-patron" of Catholic education.
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