Moana Patterson

Utah Teacher Forces Catholic Boy to Wash Off Ash Wednesday Cross

A grade school teacher in Utah forced a 4th-grade Catholic boy to wash off his “inappropriate” Ash Wednesday cross from his forehead.

Warner Todd Huston

8 Mar 2019, 8:25 AM PST

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A teacher in the predominantly Mormon state of Utah was placed on administrative leave after she forced a Catholic student to wash off the Ash Wednesday cross from his forehead. William McLeod, 9, had just returned to his school near Salt Lake City after attending …