Catholic Church opens Lent season with the pope sidelined with pneumonia

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Pope's Ash Wednesday absence looms large as Lent begins at the Vatican

While Pope Francis remained hospitalized at Rome's Gemelli Hospital, Italian Cardinal Angelo De Donatis celebrated the Ash Wednesday Mass in his place at the Basilica of Santa Sabina, March 5 in Rome.

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Seven editors of the "Steirerkrone" decided to give up something during Lent, whether for religious or health reasons – or simply to get to know their own body better. Today: Part 4! The first days have been completed – in themselves I am a butcher – and that is why I decided to renounce meat and sausage. On Ash Wednesday, this was easy: on no day in the year in this country, the range of fish is as attractive as on the first Lent Day. After tha…

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Christians celebrate the start of Lent

Deacon Bill Schreiber dipped his thumb into a pot of ashes before drawing a small cross on a parishioner's forehead.

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As Catholics Gather for Jubilee, Just One Thing Is Missing: Francis

ROME -- Rome had spent months prepping up for the Roman Catholic Church Jubilee. It built tunnels, opened up squares and scrubbed moldy fountains. Now thousands of pilgrims were flocking from all over the world for the occasion

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We talk a lot about the revival of ideologies. To this, Christianity does not propose a theory, but a practice, a kind of triptych: fasting, almsgiving, and prayer.

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Patriarch Pizzaballa: Lenten forgiveness is stronger than violent words of hatred

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, releases a message at the start of Lent, recalling that the "overbearing rhetoric ...