March 5th is Ash Wednesday which marks the start of Lent for Catholics worldwide.Lent is a 40-day period that is observed by ...

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

Grace Lutheran Church in Long Beach continued its tradition of offering ashes to go on Ash Wednesday. This year, the event ...

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

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

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

Ash Wednesday has come and gone and Lent has begun. With it comes memes about fasting and the oddities of what the Church does and doesn’t consider meat. Lent is a significant period in the Christian ...

Pioneer Presbyterian Church offered members of the community an opportunity to observe the beginning of Lent outside of the ...

On Wednesday, Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, the Major Penitentiary, celebrated the traditional Mass beginning Lent at the ...

Mayor Michelle Wu is many things: Savvy politician, smart Harvard-trained lawyer, devoted mother. But none of those words ...

T he leader of southeastern Michigan's Catholics stood in the aisle at a historic church in downtown Detroit on Wednesday ...