Pope Leo's Spain Visit, AI in Healthcare, and a Minnesota Missionary's Path to Sainthood

Thanks for listening! Let us know what you think. God bless!Maggie Murray of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for June 3, 2026. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.Read the stories in this episode:As Pope Leo XIV prepares to land in Madrid this Friday, Spanish Catholics and Church leaders are hoping his visit — to a nation still polarized by Civil War wounds — will carry a powerful message of reconciliation, forgiveness and unity rooted in Christian witness.As Senate Republicans push a $72 billion immigration enforcement bill, Bishop Brendan Cahill of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Migration urged lawmakers to protect migrant family unity, prevent enforcement at houses of worship, and pass the Religious Workforce Protection Act.A Catholic medical ethicist says Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" carries urgent lessons for healthcare, where systems are aggressively adopting artificial intelligence that lacks the prudential judgment needed to treat the whole human person with dignity.The U.S. bishops will take a key step this month toward advancing the sainthood cause of Monsignor Joseph Francis Buh, a Slovenian-born missionary priest who spent decades serving Native American and Slovenian communities in northeastern Minnesota and is venerated as the "Patriarch of the Diocese of Duluth."Continuing his catechesis on the Second Vatican Council's Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Pope Leo XIV told thousands gathered in St. Peter's Square that the rites and symbols of Catholic worship are not arbitrary ceremonies but the essential means through which believers encounter God and are formed in faith.