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President Donald Trump bows his head during a prayer as he sits between Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivors and students Julia Cordover and Carson Abt Feb. 21 at the White House. Trump hosted the listening session with high school students. families and teachers to discuss school safety in the wake of a mass shooting a week earlier at the school in Parkland, Fla. (CNS photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters)

With growing student activism on gun violence, will lawmakers act?

Dennis Sadowski
February 23, 2018
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This year 34 mass shootings, resulting in 60 deaths and 144 injuries, have been recorded by the online site Gun Violence Archive.

A South Sudanese girl is seen at the Nguenyyiel refugee camp in Gambella, Ethiopia, in late October. Pope Francis called for an international day of prayer and fasting for peace to be observed Feb. 23. (CNS photo/Tiksa Negeri, Reuters) See BISHOPS-EUROPE-AFRICA-SUMMIT Nov. 28, 2017.

Pope asks for a Feb. 23 World Day of Prayer and Fasting for Peace

Catholic Review Staff
February 22, 2018
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Pope Francis is asking Catholics around the world to observe a Day of Prayer and Fasting for Peace on Friday, Feb. 23.

Pope Paul VI is pictured in this undated photo. Pope Paul, who served as pope from 1963-1978, was declared blessed by Pope Francis Oct. 19, 2014. He is most remembered for his 1968 encyclical, "Humanae Vitae," which affirmed the church's teaching against artificial contraception. (CNS photo/Giancarlo Giuliani, Catholic Press Photo)

Conscience and grace: A Lenten meditation

George Weigel
February 22, 2018
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Lent calls us to embrace the humility of the Gospel publican and confess that we have sinned, knowing that God’s mercy can heal what is broken in us if we cooperate with his grace. 

A painting at the Oblate Sisters of Providence motherhouse in Baltimore depicts Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange, founder of the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first Catholic order of African-American nuns. (CR file)

The Oblate Sisters of Providence: An American story

Diane Batts Morrow
February 22, 2018
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In responding to the call of their teaching mission, the Oblate Sisters nurtured the minds and souls of black folk, the very elements of black existence white society routinely denied.

Hognob, voiced by Nick Park, and Dug, voiced by Eddie Redmayne, appear in the animated movie "Early Man." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG -- parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children.(CNS photo/Lionsgate)

Movie Review: ‘Early Man’

Sister Hosea Rupprecht
February 22, 2018
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The movie celebrates kindness, family and the merits of working together. It also sends the message that greed will get you nowhere.

Activists and DACA recipients are seen in New York City Feb. 15. The group is walking 250 miles to Washington to demand Congress pass a "clean" bill with no conditions to save the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, such as the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, or DREAM Act. (CNS photo/Shannon Stapleton, Reuters)

El Arzobispo Lori se une al llamado de los obispos de E.E.U.U. para salvar a DACA

Catholic News Service
February 21, 2018
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“Nuestra fe nos mueve a estar con los vulnerables, incluidos nuestros hermanos y hermanas inmigrantes… Ahora debemos mostrar nuestro apoyo y solidaridad de una manera especial,” dijeron los obispos.

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