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  • For Ash Wednesday, Vatican asks priests to ‘sprinkle’ ashes on heads

    For Ash Wednesday, Vatican asks priests to ‘sprinkle’ ashes on heads

    • Jan 12, 2021

    The Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments asked priests to take special anti-COVID-19 precautions this year when distributing ashes on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 17, including sprinkling ashes on the top of people’s heads rather than using them to make a cross on people’s foreheads.

    By Catholic News Service
  • Pope: Remember those ‘reduced to ashes’ by war and indifference

    Pope: Remember those ‘reduced to ashes’ by war and indifference

    • Feb 26, 2020

    ROME—Beginning the 40-day season of Lent, Pope Francis on Wednesday said this is a time to remember the lives “reduced to ashes” through war and indifference. He also said that this is not a time for “useless sermons” but to recognize that, although nothing but dust, we are “loved by

    By Inés San Martín
  • Shut off cellphone, open Bible for Lent, pope tells faithful

    Shut off cellphone, open Bible for Lent, pope tells faithful

    • Feb 26, 2020

    Lent is a time to remove all distractions and bitterness from one’s life in order to better hear God and those who suffer silently and need help, Pope Francis said.

    By Carol Glatz
  • Italy sees several Ash Wednesday cancellations amid coronavirus fears

    Italy sees several Ash Wednesday cancellations amid coronavirus fears

    • Feb 25, 2020

    This week several major Italian dioceses have canceled Ash Wednesday services and suspended public Masses amid growing alarm over the spread of the novel coronavirus in Italy, which at the heart of the worst outbreak in Europe.

    By Elise Ann Allen
  • Lent is a time of self-honesty, conversion, and re-creation

    Lent is a time of self-honesty, conversion, and re-creation

    • Feb 23, 2020

    Lent is the season of self-honesty. It’s a time when we can put away the masks and bring down the facades. Lent opens a forum where we can admit to ourselves, and to those around us, that we are sinners and in need of divine help.

    By Father Jeffrey F. Kirby
  • Utah teacher apologizes for Ash Wednesday incident

    Utah teacher apologizes for Ash Wednesday incident

    • Mar 12, 2019

    A Utah teacher on administrative leave apologized Monday for making 9-year-old Catholic student William McLeod wash off the Ash Wednesday cross from his forehead, saying it was a misunderstanding.

    By Joseph Gedeon and Lindsay Whitehurst
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