President Donald Trump argued in favor of his administration’s policies on key issues like the economy and immigration in a prime-time address to the nation Dec. 17.

Approximately 50 Planned Parenthood clinics closed in 2025 as the group lost its ability to bill Medicaid, according to a report by the nation’s largest abortion provider.

While the wisdom of Leo’s message on peace will be considered above all for its ramifications on international affairs, it can pertain to the church, too.

The “confrontational” tone dominating both global and national politics is “deepening instability and unpredictability day by day,” Pope Leo XIV wrote in his message for World Peace Day.

In one of the most anticipated U.S. episcopal appointments of his pontificate so far, Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York and named as his successor Bishop Ronald A. Hicks of Joliet, Illinois.