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Ash Wednesday

Pope Leo XIV leads a penitential procession to Santa Sabina Basilica to celebrate Ash Wednesday Mass in Rome Feb. 18, 2026. (OSV News photo/Matteo Minnella, Reuters)

Pope Leo XIV calls for 'countercultural' repentance on first Ash Wednesday of his pontificate

Courtney Mares|Feb 18, 2026|4 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV blesses faithful at the end of the weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Feb. 18, 2026. (OSV News photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters)

Pope encourages Catholics to ask the Lord for the gift of true conversion this Lent

Courtney Mares|Feb 18, 2026|3 Min Read

A clergyman sprinkles ashes on the head of a Palestinian Catholic during Ash Wednesday Mass in the Church of St. Catherine in Bethlehem, West Bank, Feb. 22, 2023. (OSV NEWS photo/Debbie Hill)

Faith

From foreheads to crowns: How Ash Wednesday looks different worldwide

Josephine Peterson|Feb 17, 2026|4 Min Read

Young people and members of the House of Mary, groups associated with the Pontifical Academy of the Immaculate Conception, and others pray around a statue of St. John Paul II outside Rome’s Gemelli hospital March 2, 2025. Pope Francis is receiving treatment there for double pneumonia. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Pope marks Ash Wednesday in hospital, receiving ashes, Eucharist

Carol Glatz|Mar 5, 2025|4 Min Read

Ash Wednesday

Cheer up, it’s Ash Wednesday

Russell Shaw|Feb 14, 2024|3 Min Read

Dried palms are placed in a fire at the conclusion of a Mardi Gras evening prayer service. Ashes from the fire are used on Ash Wednesday. (CNS/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Faith

Valentine’s Day falls on Ash Wednesday: Why that’s a good thing

Father Peter John Cameron, OP|Feb 7, 2024|5 Min Read

Ash Wednesday

Learning to forgive

Archbishop José H. Gomez|Feb 24, 2023|4 Min Read

Penance

Faith

New translation tweaks to sacrament of penance take effect this Lent

Gina Christian|Jan 31, 2023|4 Min Read

Pope Francis arrives to lead his general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican March 2, 2022. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Pope Francis on Ash Wednesday: Lent is a time for conversion and interior renewal

Courtney Mares|Mar 2, 2022|4 Min Read

A woman receives ashes during Ash Wednesday Mass at St. Patrick's Pro-Cathedral in Newark, New Jersey, in this 2017 file photo. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Straight talk on Ash Wednesday

Russell Shaw|Feb 28, 2022|3 Min Read

An Indigenous man receives the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine from a municipal health worker in the Sustainable Development Reserve of Tupe in Manaus, Brazil, Feb. 9, 2021. (CNS photo/Bruno Kelly, Reuters)

World

Pope Francis urges Brazil's Christians to seek unity in battle against pandemic

Catholic News Agency|Feb 17, 2021|2 Min Read

Vehicles drive on snow and sleet covered roads Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, in Spring, Texas. A winter storm dropping snow and ice sent temperatures plunging across the southern Plains, prompting a power emergency in Texas a day after conditions canceled flights and impacted traffic across large swaths of the U.S. (David J Phillip/AP via Crux)

Amid record snow, Texas scrambles to reconfigure Ash Wednesday

John Lavenburg|Feb 17, 2021|3 Min Read

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