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A woman receives ashes on the observance of Ash Wednesday at a church in Manila, Philippines, on March 5, 2025. The 40-day period of Lent begins for Catholics around the world on Ash Wednesday. / Credit: TED ALJIBE/AFP via Getty Images Vatican City, Mar 5, 2025 / 11:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis asked Christians on…
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 4, 2025, as Vice Preseident JD Vance (back left) and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (back right) look on. / Credit: JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 5,…
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One does not have to turn over too many pages of Holy Scripture before learning the high cost of discipleship. So, what exactly is the price that we are expected to pay in order to follow Christ? To organize our entire lives in complete conformity to a God pierced and crucified for our sins? Love…
Ash Wednesday is the one day of the year when we can see if the strangers we meet in street and store are Catholic—at least we can see who went to Mass to get their Lent started. While the black ashes clearly mark the brows of the baptized, it isn’t clear to most of those…
