Pope Francis is awake and resting Thursday after a peaceful night during his third week of hospital treatment for double pneumonia.

Nearly 150 U.S. military personnel, patients, hospital staff and others gathered in Memorial Auditorium for the noon Mass.

A Camden cathedral service was among those that marked start of Lent, a time of prayer, fasting and charity for many Catholics, other Christians.

Soon to be installed as Washington's eighth archbishop, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy said Ash Wednesday Mass March 5 at the ...

BRAINERD — Christians across the lakes area hosted services on Ash Wednesday, March 5, to mark the beginning of the 40-day ...

The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis couldn't celebrate Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent outside the hospital.

Maria Johns receives ashes from the Rev. Mike Chenier during Ash Wednesday Mass at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church ...

A Catholic priest rubs the sign of the cross with ashes on a worshipper's forehead on Ash Wednesday at St Francis Catholic ...