New York’s Catholics observe the start of Lent throughout the city on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Today marks the beginning ...

Made of ashes and earth, we experience fragility through illness, poverty, and the hardships that can suddenly befall us and ...

WESTFIELD, MA (WGGB/WSHM) - Services for Ash Wednesday took place Wednesday across western Massachusetts.

Ash Wednesday gets its name from the practice of placing ashes on the foreheads of the faithful as a sign of penance.

The statement is signed by 11 Christian LGBTQ groups representing tens of thousands of constituents and roughly 5,000 ...

The Catholic Church has opened the solemn Lenten season leading to Easter without the participation of Pope Francis. He is in ...

Wednesday March 5 is Ash Wednesday across the world, which marks the first day of Lent. Lent is a 40-day period of reflection ...

Catholics receive ashes on their foreheads during Ash Wednesday services at St. Patrick Cathedral in El Paso, Texas, on March ...

For many Christians worldwide, the weeks leading up to Easter are a time of fasting, solemn contemplation and abstaining from ...

The Vatican says that Pope Francis has increased his physical activity, called the Catholic parish priest in Gaza and marked ...

Rev. Rik Rasmussen of St. Paul's Episcopal Church stood on the corner of 15th & J Streets in downtown Sacramento Wednesday morning and met a steady stream of people who walked up to him on the ...