President of Harvard resigns...Catholic Church in Hungary won't follow the Vatican's rulling on bless same-sex unions....and new research shows thousands of women in the U.S. have stocked up on abortion pills.

Judge notes Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has spread false information about doctors mutilating children...some Catholic bishops will not follow Vatican’s new direction allowing blessings for same-sex couples...and Palestinian Christians grappling with Christmas in the midst of war.

Pope Francis urges Vatican bureaucrats to avoid “rigid ideological positions”...Franklin Graham comments on Pope's declaration on blessing same-sex couples...and two reality TV stars speak out after their recent baptisms.

San Francisco's archbishop breaking with Vatican over same-sex couple blessings...hundreds of false bomb threats made to Jewish facilities likely came from outside the U.S....and Britain’s Supreme Court has denied machines the same status as humans.

Late U-S Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has been memorialized...Oklahoma Supreme Court staying out of lawsuit trying to prevent opening of the nation's first religious charter school...and it's a toned-downed Christmas in Bethlehem.

Pope Francis formally approves allowing priests to bless same-sex couples...a once-prominent cardinal has been sentenced to five-and-a-half-years in Vatican jail...and the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said two Christian women at a church compound in Gaza have been killed by Israeli sniper fire.

U-S Supreme Court will hear appeals on limits on abortion pill...New Mexico's Supreme Court isweighing whether to strike down local abortion restrictions...and attorneys representing an Oregon mother of five who wishes to adopt siblings from foster care appeals being denied due to her beliefs.

President Biden vows to continue to stand with Israel in its war with Hamas...Harvard's President will keep her job...and University of Minnesota may become target of federal investigation over antisemitism.

U-S Supreme Court declines to take up achallenge to Washington State's ban on conversion therapy for minors..police investigating death of Nebraska priest...and attorney's for pregnant Texas women says she will travel out of state for abortion.