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Pope at Lent’s start: end ‘dictatorship’ of the superficial

Cardinals arrive at the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome where he will celebrate mass on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, which opens the Lenten season of abstinence and deprivation for Christians, before the Holy Week and Easter. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) Pope Francis leaves at the end of a mass in the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, which opens the Lenten season of abstinence and deprivation for Christians, before the Holy Week and Easter. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) Pope Francis prepares to celebrate mass at the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, which opens the Lenten season of abstinence and deprivation for Christians, before the Holy Week and Easter. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) Pope Francis, center, arrives at the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome where he will celebrate mass on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, which opens the Lenten season of abstinence and deprivation for Christians, before the Holy Week and Easter. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) Pope Francis, center, arrives at the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome where he will celebrate mass on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, which opens the Lenten season of abstinence and deprivation for Christians, before the Holy Week and Easter. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) Pope Francis, center, arrives at the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome where he will celebrate mass on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, which opens the Lenten season of abstinence and deprivation for Christians, before the Holy Week and Easter. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) Pope Francis, center, arrives at the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome where he will celebrate mass on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, which opens the Lenten season of abstinence and deprivation for Christians, before the Holy Week and Easter. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) Pope Francis, left, presides over a mass in the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, which opens the Lenten season of abstinence and deprivation for Christians, before the Holy Week and Easter. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Pope at Lent’s start: end ‘dictatorship’ of the superficial