1. In the Washington Post: Indonesian Christian politician held on blasphemy charges released from jail

2. Ed Mechmann on the way forward in New York.

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Opportunity abounds. Be light. Look up. Live pro-life, don’t just talk or tweet about it. https://t.co/N7eUxqvsU5 — Kelly Rosati (@KellyMRosati) January 25, 2019

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He stops taking his medication after he is discharged. He has been hospitalized six times. Now he is in jail. Veteran advocate asks: "What is the solution?" https://t.co/YlXX4i9zqC — Pete Earley (@peteearley) January 25, 2019

5. Alejandro Bermudez on Notre Dame and Christopher Columbus


6. Media Miss the Ennobling Idealism of Students Marching for Life


7. My friend Fr. Roger J. Landry writes about Courage in the Christian and Priestly Life. I hope the 500 seminarians who were at Mass at the big pro-life vigil Mass (10,000 people) the night before the March last week get to read it. (That was the church that Nathan Phillips and others would try to disrupt during Mass Saturday night.)


8. The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty has summer internships. The deadline is Feb. 1.

9. We have internships at the National Review Institute, too. I’m looking for an intern specifically who wants to spend the summer on religion, culture, and civil-society research and logistics.

10. On Listening to Thomas Merton

PLUS: Have you read about the Mother Teresa Home in Buffalo?

Check nationalreview.com this weekend for my Q&A with Meghan Cox Gurdon about the enchantment of reading aloud.

Do plan to join my conversation with Sohrab Ahmari at The Sheen Center in SoHo on March 13.

A few things I’ve mentioned here that have Feb. 1 deadlines: The GIVEN Institute leadership forum for young Catholic women. And the Philos Project leadership program in the Middle East.