Atomic Test Vigil, UK Abortion Rates, New Vatican Child Protection Chair

Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for July 14, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

• Representatives of various groups, including one that earned a Nobel Peace Prize, gathered at an interfaith event in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to call for nuclear disarmament worldwide. 
  
  
• Nearly one in three pregnancies in England and Wales ends in abortion, according to new government figures.
  
  
• Archbishop Thibault Verny of Chambéry, France -- widely respected for his rigorous approach to clergy abuse cases -- has been named president of the Vatican's Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.
  
  
• To believe in and follow a loving and compassionate Christ is to allow him to enter one's heart and take on his same feelings, Pope Leo XIV said.
  
  
• Benedictine Brother Paul-Vincent Niebauer is passionate about theater and giving the opportunity to perform "to as many students as possible" -- a Minnesota high school has established an endowed chair in his honor.