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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 ...

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.

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 ...