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Staff members of St. Bartholomew Church in Columbus, Ind., including, from right, Connie Sandlin, Kathy Davis-Shanks and the pastor, Father Clement Davis, gather with students from the parish school to burn palm branches into ashes outside the church March 4, 2019. (CNS photo/Katie Rutter)

Catholic youth learn significance of ashes in fiery Lenten tradition

Posted by - March 9, 2019
COLUMBUS, Ind. (CNS) — Smoke billowed from a small fire pit, rising nearly as high as the steeple of St. Bartholomew Church in Columbus. About 100 students watched from a…
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Pope Francis greets a child during an audience with members of Italy's Association Against Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma at the Vatican March 2, 2019. The pope said providing care to the sick should include taking care of their spiritual needs. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Caring for the ill should include spiritual assistance, pope says

Posted by - March 9, 2019
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Taking care of those who are sick or struggling with illness requires taking care of the whole person — including their spiritual needs, Pope Francis said.…
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Franciscan Brother Christopher Coppock burns last year's palms at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington March 3, 2019. The ashes will be used for Ash Wednesday March 6. (CNS photo/Julie Asher)

Don’t dread Lent, but make the best of its 40 days

Posted by - March 9, 2019
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Long, orange flames consumed the palms Massgoers had brought in to Washington’s Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land March 3 to burn ceremonially before the noontime crowd…
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Hailey McConnell is enamored with Lothair at Langley Air Force Base, adjacent to Hampton and Newport News, Va., Feb. 13, 2019. The girl was with her mother, Melissa, waiting for her brother Caleb's pediatric appointment. Melanie Paul, right, brings her Shetland Sheepdogs, Lothair and Locksley, to the hospital once a week to provide animal-assisted therapy to inpatients and outpatients. (CNS photo/Jennifer Neville, The Catholic Virginian)

Catholic’s deafness no obstacle to practicing a corporal work of mercy

Posted by - March 9, 2019
HAMPTON, Va. (CNS) — “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Those words from Chapter 4 of St. Paul’s Letter to the Philippians are words by which…
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