Welcome to the Jan. 15, 2020 edition of Just 3 Things, the weekly social action newsletter of the Office of Human Life & Dignity. Here are a few of the important priorities, news and ideas of the week.

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Archdiocese of San Francisco Restorative Justice coordinator Julio Escobar will be honored as the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Awardee at St. Paul of the Shipwreck parish in a ceremony at the 35th annual MLK Jr. Solidarity Mass Jan. 19. All are welcome.

Babies crying at Mass is a good thing--that is the word from Pope Francis. "It is a beautiful homily when a child cries in church," the pontiff told parents in the Sistine Chapel, where he baptized 32 children on the Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord.