Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for April 1, 2025. In this episode: Pope Francis prays for victims of a 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar, compounding that nation's humanitarian crisis and civil war. A number of youth tell OSV News they're excited about the upcoming canonization of Blessed Carlo Acutis, a soon-to-be-saint whose life as an ordinary Italian teenager -- combined with his extraordinary holiness -- speaks to them. Experts and advocates for ending the death penalty gather at the University of Notre Dame. Pope Francis and other Catholic leaders are calling for an end to violence in South Sudan, with the risk of a wider war looming. Pope Francis, home from the hospital, continues his recovery from double pneumonia, and the Vatican reports that the pope is making progress. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

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Pope Francis prays for Myanmar
https://www.osvnews.com/myanmar-death-toll-surpasses-2000-cardinal-calls-for-immediate-ceasefire-amid-tragedy/

Blessed Carlo Acutis
https://www.osvnews.com/young-people-tech-lovers-connect-with-soon-to-be-st-carlo-acutis/

Death penalty abolition conference
https://www.osvnews.com/notre-dame-law-school-gathering-makes-case-for-abolishing-death-penalty/

Calls for peace in South Sudan
https://www.osvnews.com/south-sudanese-bishops-warn-of-catastrophe-as-full-scale-war-threatens/

Pope Francis continues to recover
https://www.osvnews.com/pope-stable-his-lung-infection-slightly-improved-vatican-says/