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The Trump administration reportedly held a series of private meetings in Washington with leaders tied to an Alberta separatist effort as U.S.-Canada relations continue to cool.

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China’s infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology has offered to help India contain an outbreak of the dangerous Nipah virus.

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State and federal authorities are investigating the shooting death of Alex Pretti, 37, at the hands of U.S. Border Patrol agents on Saturday, but newly released video confirms Pretti had a previous confrontation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement this month.

The video, captured by The News Movement, shows Pretti shouting at federal agents before kicking and damaging their vehicle, on Jan. 13 in Minneapolis. Agents then exited the vehicle, grabbed Pretti, and wrestled him to the ground.

The BBC’s facial recognition software confirmed Pretti’s identity within 97% accuracy, and a Pretti family representative confirmed to CBS News that the man in the video was indeed Pretti.

The representative said the family knew about the incident and that Pretti, an ICU nurse, sustained injuries but did not receive medical care for them.

In the video, Pretti shouts at agents, then proceeds to kick and damage the taillight of a government SUV before agents tackle him to the ground.

The footage also shows what appears to be a handgun in Pretti’s waistband. The video does not show whether agents detained Pretti after the incident.

A Department of Homeland Security official told CBS News that Homeland Security Investigations officials are analyzing the video.

Border Patrol agents shot and killed Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday, the second fatal shooting by immigration enforcement agents in the area in less than three weeks.

The agents involved in the Saturday shooting of Pretti have been placed on leave pending an investigation.

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U.S. manufacturing productivity rose more than initially estimated in the third quarter, driven by a stronger showing in durable-goods output.

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Border czar Tom Homan said Thursday he is "staying until the problem's gone" in Minneapolis as federal immigration authorities continue their enforcement operations in the city after the shooting deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, two local residents who were fatally...

“United in Faith and Community.”

That’s the theme of this year’s Catholic Schools week, which takes place between Jan. 25 and January 31. In 1974 the National Catholic Educational Association, or NCEA, established this tradition to typically fall during the last full week of January to coincide with the beginning of enrollment season.

NCEA states its mission on the front page of their website: “In service of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, NCEA strengthens Catholic school communities by convening all stakeholders and providing professional development, data, public policy, and resources to support faith and intellectual formation.”

Each day of the week, every Catholic elementary school across the country will join the same schedule of celebrating their Catholic identity. The schedule of themes for each day are:

Sunday: Celebrating Your Parish

Monday: Celebrating Your Community

Tuesday: Celebrating Your Students

Wednesday: Celebrating the Nation

Thursday: Celebrating Vocations

Friday: Celebrating Faculty, Staff, and Volunteers

Saturday: Celebrating Families

The breakdown of how schools will celebrate their identity highlights why Catholic schools are unique.

First, each Catholic school is tied to a parish, or collection of parishes. These are the heart of the school because the reason why Catholic schools exist is to offer a daily and organic way for students and staff to grow in their faith. Being a Christian means that one devotes his or her entire life to Christ. All aspects of their lives are his–including one’s intellectual life. The parish is the center of worship for the school. The heart of worship is sacrifice. So, all schools offer praise and worship to God by taking intentional time to be with Him in prayer each day.

Catholic schools are also unique because of the way they build community. There are events for parents to socialize as well as an ingrained manner for families to get to know each other because of how these schools are often smaller in size than the large public schools that surround them. Many families have several children so parents can meet other parents who have kids around the same age but also be around families that have older children so those kids can mentor them.

Summarizing the way that the rest of this Catholic Schools Week will be celebrated, you can see that the way they champion our country and the focus they place on finding one’s vocation as particularly important.

Catholic schools advocate that America is the most beautiful place to live. The United States protects our religious freedom. It was founded on the Judeo-Christian values that are taught inside their walls each day. Catholic schools seek to promote discipleship but also patriotism because it is through one’s relationship with God that one begins to see that we have an obligation to the common good.

Finally, Catholic schools will focus an entire day on vocations. This is critical for the life of every believer and every human person. The word vocation comes from the Latin word vocare which means “to summon.” The Church believes, rooted in the way that Christ called his disciples and the way that God called people in the Old Testament, that every single person has a calling in their life that He is summoning them to. The large-scale vocation of a person is to either married life or religious life as a priest, brother, or nun. No matter which one a person is called to, every vocation, or calling from God, is identified with sacrifice.

Catholic schools advocate that if we can place students in a place to meet Christ, grow in the intellectual life, and be emboldened by a strong community they will discover their pathway to holiness–their vocation. This avenue for their own personal sanctification will be intrinsically tied to how God is asking them to sacrifice for the world and make it more whole.

All of the above is a great promotion for the power of a Catholic school education. For me, the words above are not merely descriptions. I experienced it firsthand. This came through my formation in Catholic schools from pre-k through college and graduate school and my current experience of teaching at a Catholic high school as well as having my children being enrolled in a school that transmits the faith in everything it does.

The power and impact of Catholic education comes from being surrounded by faith and being lifted up by the friendships forged in pursuit of the same goal: union with God and the salvation of the world.

What greater goal could a school possibly have?

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed this week that three men deported to Iran recently, found to have entered America illegally, were "known or suspected" members of the terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

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Tesla reported a 46 percent year-over-year decline in profits during its Wednesday evening earnings update, marking a difficult period for the electric vehicle manufacturer as it lost its position as the world's top EV seller.

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Border Czar Tom Homan said Thursday that federal agents will keep to their mission in Minnesota even as he talks with state and local officials who oppose their mission. “You […]

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