Lenten season begins today with 'Ash Wednesday'
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Church in a commuter lot: In Carroll, Ash Wednesday services to go
On Ash Wednesday, for the first time in months, clergy members were allowed inside the Broadview ICE facility, thanks to a lawsuit arguing the Department of Homeland Security violated religious freedom protections.
Pope Leo XIV has opened the church’s penitential Lenten season by presiding over Ash Wednesday. He is lamenting the “ashes of international law and justice” that have been left by today’s wars and conflicts.