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Ash Wednesday will be observed Feb. 14. Religious leaders say you can observe it and Valentine’s Day without ditching your Catholic obligations.
Feb. 14, 2024
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What’ll it be this year? Chocolates or ice cream?
March 4, 2000
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Dec. 15, 2017
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Pope Francis presided over a COVID-aware Ash Wednesday service, with reduced participation of the faithful.
Feb. 17, 2021
For 30 years as an Episcopal priest in Iowa, Peter Sickels smeared crosses of ash on the foreheads of his parishioners every Ash Wednesday.
March 1, 2017
Sports
Feb. 18, 2015
Fat Tuesday: Carbo loading begins ahead of Ash Wednesday, Lent
Feb. 20, 2012
Pope John Paul II, his forehead blackened with a traditional sign of penitence, smudged ashes on the foreheads of priests, nuns and monks in an Ash Wednesday service marking the beginning of Lent.
March 5, 1987
Ash Wednesday: Churches make last-minute calls to ash merchants
Feb. 21, 2012
It’s been nearly 100 years since Easter arrived this early, taking some Christians by surprise.
Feb. 6, 2008