Articles tagged Ash Wednesday

Former staffer reveals Trump approved first-ever Catholic Mass on White House grounds

As president, Donald Trump approved an ‘unprecedented request’ for ‘the first Mass in history in the White House compound’ on Ash Wednesday in 2018 and allowed regular White House Masses after that, Mick Mulvaney said.

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Stephen Kokx

• Apr 5, 2024Apr 5, 2024

Bishop Strickland urges us this Lent to work out our salvation as thoroughly as possible

On this week's two-part episode of The Bishop Strickland Show, Bishop Joseph Strickland calls on pastors to speak up in defense of the truth and says the thought of hell should be a 'wake-up call' for us to repent.

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LifeSiteNews staff

• Feb 18, 2024Feb 19, 2024

Ash Wednesday is the beginning of forty days of spiritual battle and penance

Remember, man, that thou art dust, and into dust thou shalt return!

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Dom Prosper Guéranger

• Feb 14, 2024Feb 13, 2024

‘Desecration’: Canterbury Cathedral hosts alcohol-fueled ‘silent disco’ near tomb of English martyr

Critics, including Christian Dr. Cajetan Skowronski, have protested against the desecration, warning of plans to extend similar events to other cathedrals across England.

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Frank Wright

• Feb 13, 2024Feb 14, 2024

WATCH: Arsonist sets fire to historic Catholic church in Saskatchewan

Blessed Sacrament Parish in Regina posted footage of the February 9 arson attack on social media and pleaded for those who know anything to contact the police.

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LifeSiteNews staff

• Feb 12, 2024Feb 13, 2024

Abp. Viganò: We must do penance for our sins this Lent and beg God to protect His Church

From Passion Week until the Easter Vigil, the crosses and sacred images in the churches are veiled, to remind us of our unworthiness as sinners and the silence of God, a silence that Our Lord also experienced in the Garden of Gethsemane and on the Cross.

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Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò

• Feb 23, 2023Feb 23, 2023

FBI office in Chicago reportedly axed longstanding Ash Wednesday tradition this year

Suspended FBI agent and whistleblower Steve Friend said the priest who normally distributes the ashes was told to stay away this year due to an unspecified 'legal issue.'

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Evan Stambaugh

• Feb 23, 2023

Advice for Lent: Pick just one vice to root out of your life

Through the starvation of vice comes the power to change the course of our lives. Start small, start soon, and never give up.

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Frank Wright

• Feb 20, 2023

Trump wishes Christians a ‘prayerful’ Ash Wednesday, praises tradition of ‘sign of cross’ on foreheads

'We join in prayer with everyone observing this holy day and wish you a prayerful Lenten journey'

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Calvin Freiburger

• Feb 26, 2020Jun 18, 2021

Virginia governor refuses to apologize for appointee’s anti-Catholic remarks

Ralph Northam confirmed Thursday that his Virginia Council on Women appointee, Gail Gordon Donegan, resigned on her own after her comments became known and that he would have kept her on.

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Lisa Bourne

• Aug 30, 2019Jun 18, 2021

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Articles tagged Ash Wednesday

Former staffer reveals Trump approved first-ever Catholic Mass on White House grounds

Bishop Strickland urges us this Lent to work out our salvation as thoroughly as possible

Ash Wednesday is the beginning of forty days of spiritual battle and penance

‘Desecration’: Canterbury Cathedral hosts alcohol-fueled ‘silent disco’ near tomb of English martyr

WATCH: Arsonist sets fire to historic Catholic church in Saskatchewan

Abp. Viganò: We must do penance for our sins this Lent and beg God to protect His Church

FBI office in Chicago reportedly axed longstanding Ash Wednesday tradition this year

Advice for Lent: Pick just one vice to root out of your life

Trump wishes Christians a ‘prayerful’ Ash Wednesday, praises tradition of ‘sign of cross’ on foreheads

Virginia governor refuses to apologize for appointee’s anti-Catholic remarks