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Speaking to over 1 billion Catholics around the world, Pope Francis on Ash Wednesday declared a day of fasting and prayer for the people of Ukraine. Breaking a tradition of neutrality, Francis ...

Patrick's Cathedral was fired for allegedly ordering a bell captain to wash the ashes off on Ash Wednesday. Pope Benedict XVI used his Ash Wednesday sermon in Rome to urge people to pray more ...

ROME—Pope Francis urged Catholics to forgo worldly trappings and focus on essentials as he opened the season of Lent with a traditional Ash Wednesday Mass on one of Rome’s historic seven hills.