I have walked through the Lenten season in a very traditional way. On Ash Wednesday we acknowledge our humanity and our sinful ways. Some do this by having ashes placed upon their foreheads as a ...

On March 5, marking the beginning of Lent, an Ash Wednesday Mass was celebrated at the White House for the staff of the presidential residence. A new signal sent to Catholics by U.S. President Donald ...

The world is a hot mess right now. I am not sure there is a better way to say that. Everything feels upside down and unbelievable. Pope Francis declared a jubilee year of hope; now he’s praying for a ...

While Pope Francis remained hospitalized at Rome's Gemelli Hospital, Italian Cardinal Angelo De Donatis celebrated the Ash ...

Ashes in the form of a cross could be seen across the foreheads of many Catholics and Christians on March 5, marking the ...

Local Catholic churches hosted mass and prayer services throughout the day for people to come and receive their ashes.

Catholics marked the start of Lent without Pope Francis on Wednesday. The 88-year-old spent his twentieth day in the hospital with double pneumonia.

An email from the White House Management Office informed staff that the Mass would take place in the Indian Treaty Room at ...

Vigneron reflected on how many times he has led the Ash Wednesday Mass, many of them at St. Aloysius, since he became ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis was resting Wednesday, the start of the solemn Lenten period leading up to Holy Week ...

Hundreds of believers across the state celebrated Ash Wednesday, a religious day of fasting and prayer that marks the start ...

Lent is a 40-day period of prayer, fasting and giving, this year beginning March 5 and lasting until April 17. The ashes ...