Birthright Citizenship Class Action, Grieving Texas Floods, Holy Land Violence, and More

Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for July 10, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

• A federal judge on July 10 placed a new, temporary nationwide block on President Donald Trump's executive order to to end the practice of birthright citizenship as part of a class action lawsuit.
  
  
• Days after July 4 flash floods ravaged the state of Texas' Hill Country -- killing at least 121, with more than 170 people still missing as of July 10 -- OSV News spoke with Father Joshua Whitfield, whose community suffered the loss of two Catholic girls found with their hands clasped together.
  
  
• In the West Bank, Christian leaders in Taybeh -- the region’s only entirely Christian Palestinian village — are sounding the alarm over escalating settler violence. 
  
  
• As he steps down after nine years as custos of the Holy Land, Franciscan Father Francesco Patton says his time shepherding the friars and guarding Christianity’s holiest sites has been the most "formative' experience of his life.
  
  
• Pope Leo XIV called on every parish and church group or association to become part of a "revolution" of care and gratitude by regularly visiting older people.