Catholic Nutshell News: Tuesday 3/31/26

Topics include: White House defends praying for U.S. troops; White House defends praying for U.S. troops; How many Catholics in the world?; & ‘The Bible in a Year’ hits 1 billion downloads

“I’ll pray for thee from my pistachio tree”

Today's sources are OSV News, EWTN, First Things, CRUX, The Pillar, Big Pulpit, and CatholicVote. (Catholic Nutshell is a subscription service for faithful, hopeful, & curious Catholics willing to exercise the Catholic News Muscle)