Ash Wednesday – a welcome relief in a world of sin

Ash Wednesday – a welcome relief in a world of sin A young woman prays with a rosary following Ash Wednesday Mass at Sacred Heart Church in Prescott, Arizona, USA on March 5, 2025. Photo: OSV News / Bob Roller.

Experience, wrote CS Lewis, is a brutal teacher. And former politician Peter Mandelson, who has been disgraced over his ties to notorious sex offender and human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, once taught me a lesson. We were both attending one of those awful receptions for “the great and the good”. I was there as a BBC…

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