On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 7:34 PM PGage <pga...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Steve for that great and helpful summary.
>
> As others have noted there s nothing distinctively Catholic about the
> ashes on the forehead. Also, there was s no real obligation for people to
> keep the ashes on all day, and I know many devout Christians whose practice
> is to wash it off right after leaving church. Almost by definition, wearing
> the ashes on tv by journalists is performative and (IMO) indulgent. I see
> now that your observations are playful and teasing. Still may be worth
> noting in passing that ashes on the forehead is not a meaningful indicator
> either of Catholic affiliation or religious piety.
>


As I said five messages earlier, I Googled it and all the FOX News staffers
I named are Catholic.

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