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Today's Readings
- Memorial of Saint Agnes, Virgin and Martyr
  
  Reading 1 Heb 5:1-10
  Responsorial Psalm Ps 110:1, 2, 3, 4
  Gospel Mk 2:18-22

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National Catholic Register
- 14 More Ways to Help Bring God into the World
  
  By Angelo Stagnaro | Following up on my recent list of 13 things for Christians to do to evangelize the world, here are 14 more ways to bring Christ to the world: 1. Stand up for Christianity. Stand...
- Martin Luther King Jr. Stands Firmly on the Shoulders of Augustine and Aquinas
  
  By Kathy Schiffer | Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., leader of the nonviolent Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and '60s, helped Americans to understand that while obedience to the law is important...
- OneLife LA 2019 Draws Joyful Throng to Los Angeles
  
  By Jim Graves | LOS ANGELES — An estimated 15,000 Southern Californians gathered Saturday in downtown Los Angeles for the fifth-annual OneLife LA, an Archdiocese of Los Angeles event designed “to...
- New Film on the Revolutionary War Against Women
  
  By K.V. Turley | Coming in this 50th anniversary year of Humane Vitae a new documentary Sexual Revolution: 50 Years Since Humanae Vitae examines the encyclical’s continuing prophetic witness and...
- WYD ’19 Preview: Youth’s ‘Yes’ to God
  
  By Sabrina Ferrisi | PANAMA CITY — Mary’s unequivocal “Yes” to God’s calling is being held up as the guiding inspiration for this month’s World Youth Day in Panama — as the gathering’s theme is taken.
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News from the Vatican
- Vatican expert says anti-migrant crackdowns exacerbate trafficking
  
  One of the Vatican’s top officials on the migration issue has said strict policies increase the risk of human trafficking, as the lack of safe and legal passages force many people to take more...
- Vatican summit to help nations lagging on abuse policies, Jesuit says
  
  Only about half of the national bishops' conferences in the world have adopted complete, Vatican-approved guidelines for handling accusations of clerical sexual abuse and promoting child protection...
- Tolerance-plus: Pope in Abu Dhabi will build on relations with Muslims
  
  When Pope Francis visits Abu Dhabi Feb. 3-5, he will visit a land where interreligious tolerance is mandated by law; while Catholics in the United Arab Emirates count their blessings for that, the...
- Vatican urges global collaboration, more prosecutions to fight trafficking
  
  In two new documents on migration and human trafficking, the Vatican has emphasized the need to protect migrants and step up international collaboration and prosecutions of traffickers, while also...
- Catholics must continue seeking pardon for anti-Judaism, pope says
  
  A few decades of respectful Catholic-Jewish dialogue pale in comparison to "19 centuries of Christian anti-Judaism," Pope Francis said, so Catholics must continue to ask forgiveness and...