Catholic faith leaders provided communion and ashes to detained migrants inside the Broadview building as Catholics celebrate Ash Wednesday. Faith leaders had been denied access to the building in the ...

(In paragraph 10, corrects Blaise to Blase) By Heather Schlitz BROADVIEW, Illinois, Feb 19 (Reuters) - For the first time in ...

The Department of Homeland Security complied with a federal judge’s Feb. 12 order to allow members of the Chicago-based ...

Federal judge orders Trump administration to let ICE detainees at a Chicago-area facility access Ash Wednesday church ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich led a Mass in Chicago, which was attended by relatives of those who have been detained or deported.

18 February 2026 is Ash Wednesday, which traditionally starts the season of Lent. This is the story … ...

Church leaders were allowed inside the Broadview ICE Detention Facility on Wednesday to offer Ash Wednesday sacraments to detainees for the first time.

Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich told immigrants that Trump administration deportation efforts had acquainted them with Ash Wednesday’s Scripture passage about practicing faith in secret.

NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) — The Newark bishops are the only confirmed U.S. bishops who plan to celebrate Ash Wednesday Mass in an ICE detention facility.

It was a very good beginning,” Father Fossá said. “There was no tension. We felt welcomed. So if this continues, I think we could establish a ministry that will be very beneficial to the families.” ...

Sometimes people read T S Eliot’s sequence of six poems, Ash Wednesday in the hope of understanding better Ash Wednesday, which falls on February 18 this year. But that is round the wrong way.

A Catholic nonprofit and several clergy said immigration authorities had unlawfully blocked its members for months from providing pastoral care at an ICE facility in Broadview, Ill. By Ashley Ahn A ...