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At the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston, there will be a 12:10 p.m. Mass and another at 5 p.m. that will be streamed live. The church will open at 11 a.m. Church leaders at Holy Ghost Catholic Church in west Houston plan to follow their planned schedule, but were understanding of the circumstances facing parishioners. "We will also distribute ashes at the Sunday Mass this coming weekend, the first Sunday of Advent, for those of you who did not receive them Wednesday," Father William Bueche said in a notice on the church's website. St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church is offering fou...

Feb. 16, 2021 Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY -- Ash Wednesday and Lent are a time to recall that new life emerges from the ashes and that spring blossoms from the bleakness of winter, said a noted Italian theologian. And when people fast from media overload, as Pope Francis has asked people to do for Lent, they should be directing their attention to the real people around them, Servite Father Ermes Ronchi told Vatican News Feb. 16. Instead of being "glued" to the internet, "what if we were to look people in the eye the way we look at our phones, 50 times a day, looking at them wit...