Pope Leo XIV has opened the church’s penitential Lenten season by presiding over Ash Wednesday. He is lamenting the “ashes of ...

Wednesday, Feb. 18, is a Christian holy day called Ash Wednesday and marks the beginning of Lent, the 40 days leading up to ...

The Department of Homeland Security complied with a federal judge’s Feb. 12 order to allow members of the Chicago-based ...

Ash Wednesday is a day away and begins the Christian season of Lent. The 6-week period that leads up to Easter. What we know on date, meaning and more.

On Ash Wednesday, for the first time in months, clergy members were allowed inside the Broadview ICE facility, thanks to a ...

Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich told immigrants that Trump administration deportation efforts had acquainted them with Ash Wednesday’s Scripture passage about practicing faith in secret.

Ash Wednesday falls on Wednesday, Feb. 18. The holy day marks the beginning of Lent. Visit individual Diocese of Stockton and other denominational church websites for a full schedule of Mass times.

If you passed by Gesù Catholic Church around lunchtime on Wednesday, you would’ve seen people pouring out onto the steps ...

Allentown Bishop Alfred A. Schlert places ashes on the foreheads of students during Ash Wednesday Mass at the Cathedral of St. Catharine of Siena in Allentown.

Church leaders were allowed inside the Broadview ICE Detention Facility on Wednesday to offer Ash Wednesday sacraments to detainees for the first time.

An off-duty Sacramento detective intervened during an Ash Wednesday school mass, detaining a "suspicious person." ...