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Today's Readings
- Wednesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time
  
  Reading I Heb 7:1-3, 15-17
  Responsorial Psalm 110:1, 2, 3, 4
  Gospel Mk 3:1-6
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- Court: Vermont can’t exclude Catholic school student from college tuition program
  
  2 hours ago
  
  Denver Newsroom, Jan 20, 2021 / 12:23 am (CNA).- A federal court of appeals has sided with a Catholic high school student who challenged a State of Vermont policy that excludes students at private...
- This pro-life Democrat is worried about the next Catholic president
  
  12 hours ago
  
  Denver Newsroom, Jan 19, 2021 / 03:00 pm (CNA).- A former U.S. representative who was known as one of the last standing pro-life Democrats in Congress said he is worried about the example a Catholic...
- Connecticut assisted suicide bill would not safeguard against coercion, opponents say
  
  13 hours ago
  
  Hartford, Conn., Jan 19, 2021 / 02:01 pm (CNA).- Disability advocates criticized a Connecticut assisted suicide bill for failing to safeguard against coercion and for promoting the idea that the...
National Catholic Register
- Pro-Life Leader Joe Scheidler Remembered as ‘Fearless Champion of the Unborn’
  
  Pro-life legend Joe Scheidler holds his grandchild 2020. During five decades of activism, stalwart saw prayer as the foundation of his work.
- Communist crackdown in China is “Beyond George Orwell’s Imaginings” — and It’s Only Getting Worse
  
  NICOLAS ASFOURI Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Sept. 8. A new human rights report “gives a terrifying view of the cruelty of Xi Jinping’s...
- Connecticut Assisted Suicide Bill Would Not Safeguard Against Coercion, Opponents Say
  
  ashley rose via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Pills spill out from a prescription bottle. Various assisted suicide bills have been proposed in the state starting in 2013, though none have been passed...
Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
- At national memorial, Cardinal Gregory prays for all who died of COVID-19
  
  WASHINGTON (CNS) — Saying the nation “reverently pauses in supplication to remember and to pray...
- Joe Scheidler, known as ‘the godfather of pro-life activism,’ dies at 93
  
  CHICAGO (CNS) — Joe Scheidler, founder of the Pro-Life Action League in Chicago and one...
- UPDATE: ‘9 Days for Life’ novena for the protection of human life set for Jan. 21-29
  
  WASHINGTON (CNS) — Catholics across the country are invited to take part in the “9...
News from the Vatican
- Vatican drops bid for Italian in fair trial extradition case
  
  The Vatican on Monday abruptly abandoned its extradition request for an Italian woman wanted on embezzlement-related charges in a case that had been set to test whether Italy considers the Vatican a...
- Pope sees MLK’s plea to love, nonviolence as remedy to modern turmoil
  
  Amid a modern social and political climate laced with historic levels of vitriol and division, legendary civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. offers a message that also hits close to home...
- Italy court weighs extradition to Vatican in fair trial case
  
  A Milan court on Monday begins weighing whether to extradite an Italian woman to the Vatican to face embezzlement-related charges in a case that could test whether Italy considers the Vatican a state...
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