Pope Leo Encourages Middle East Bishops, Archbishop Wenski Calls TPS Haitian Youth Suicide 'Death of Despair,' UK Traditional Latin Mass Surge, and More

Thanks for listening! Let us know what you think. God bless!Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for Sept. 3, 2026. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.Read the stories in this episode:Pope Leo XIV on Sept. 3 encouraged Catholic bishops serving in the Middle East to remain faithful to the Gospel despite the challenges of leading often small Christian communities, praising their "precious presence" across the region.The International Theological Commission has released a new document calling for ecological conversion and proposing the term "sin against creation and the Creator" as a more precise way of describing environmental wrongdoing.Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami described the apparent suicide of a Haitian student in Ohio as “a death of despair,” coming amid the loss of deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the United States.Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago, two orders of Catholic nuns and a pharmacist sued Illinois Sept. 3 over the state's physician-assisted suicide law, which permits physicians to aid terminally ill adults in dying by suicide. British supporters of the traditional Latin Mass are pointing to growing youth participation as a sign of renewed interest in the Catholic faith.