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Amid doomsaying on AI, Leo XIV looks before – and beyond – regulation

Ash Wednesday

Faithful attend Ash Wednesday Mass in Mother Teresa Cathedral in Pristina, Kosovo, on Feb. 18, 2026. (Credit: Laura Hasani/AP.)

Kosovo’s Catholics and Muslims mark Ash Wednesday and Ramadan in one week

Feb 20
Zana Cimili,
Associated Press

Pope opens Lent condemning ‘structures of sin’, calling for conversion

Feb 18
Elise Ann Allen

Catholics pray the rosary while a priest marks people’s foreheads with ashes during Ash Wednesday Mass at the Church of the Divine Child in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. (Credit: Fernando Vergara/AP.)

Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent, a period of fasting, reflection — and fish fries

Feb 16
Peter Smith,
Associated Press

Cathedral of St Peter in Bandung, Indonesia. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

Islamists activists protest Ash Wednesday Mass taking place at multipurpose center in Indonesia

Mar 7, 2025
Nirmala Carvalho

People walk at dusk in St Peter’s Square at The Vatican, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (Credit: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP.)

On the first night of Lent, Pope Francis has a restful night

Mar 6, 2025
Crux Now Staff

Pope Francis celebrates Ash Wednesday Mass at the Basilica of Saint Sabina in Rome on Feb. 14, 2024. (Credit: Vatican Media/Screenshot.)

In a social media era, make private time for God, pope says

Feb 14, 2024
Elise Ann Allen

Indonesia to move Ash Wednesday amid bitterly contested elections

Jan 20, 2024
Nirmala Carvalho

On Ash Wednesday, pope urges believers to give up the superficial

Feb 22, 2023
Elise Ann Allen

Prayer, fasting, and almsgiving create a standard of spiritual maturity

Feb 19, 2023
Father Jeffrey F. Kirby

Guam archbishop: Lent is time to draw closer to God

Mar 3, 2022
Catholic News Service

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