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Pope Urges Catholics to Swap Social Media for Reflection as Lent Begins

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Pope Urges Catholics to Swap Social Media for Reflection as Lent Begins

ROME —  Pope Francis urged Catholics to forgo worldly trappings and focus on essentials as he opened the season of Lent with a traditional Ash Wednesday Mass on one of Rome’s historic seven hills. He criticized people’s tendency to lay bare their lives on social media, deploring “a world in which everything, including our emotions … Read more