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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for June 27, 2025. In this episode:

• Twenty U.S. Catholic bishops have joined an interfaith effort opposing Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, calling it a "moral failure," while the U.S. bishops' conference advocated for "drastic changes." 
  
  
• The U.S. Supreme Court on June 27 limited the ability of federal judges to issue nationwide injunctions in a case concerning the Trump administration's executive on birthright citizenship for children. 
  
  
• A new report shows the rate of abortions in the U.S. continued to increase in 2024 following the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade, facilitated by a rapid shift to telehealth abortion.
  
  
• The Vatican Observatory attests that "science is not against God" said a Jesuit astrophysicist discussing the nexus of science and spirituality at the Catholic Media Conference in Phoenix. 
  
  
• Priests are called to be embraced and shaped by God's boundless love, and to realize that there is no place for division and hatred of any kind, Pope Leo XIV said during Mass in St. Peter's Basilica June 27, the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests.