Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you passed by Gesù Catholic Church around lunchtime on Wednesday, you would’ve seen people pouring out onto the steps after the ...

Thousands of Christians will be observing the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18. The tradition has its roots in the Old Testament, where ashes on the forehead was "a sign of repentance for sins, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When is Ash Wednesday in 2026? What to know about the start of Lent The Christian observance of Ash Wednesday Feb. 18 this year ...

Hundreds of El Pasoans — from military soldiers and couples to families — began the Lenten season with an early morning Ash Wednesday Mass at St. Patrick Cathedral. Clergy led the Mass with packed ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) -Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent. On Ash Wednesday, many East Texans received ashes in the form of a cross on their foreheads. It’s a symbol of humility and repentance, with ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV opened the church’s penitential Lenten season by presiding over Ash Wednesday and lamenting the “ashes of international law and justice” that have been left by today’s wars ...

If you’ve been reading the headlines lately, you know that urban Gen Zers are flocking to the Catholic Church in droves — or, ...

If you passed by Gesù Catholic Church around lunchtime on Wednesday, you would’ve seen people pouring out onto the steps after the Ash Wednesday service. The mass, one of many held at the downtown ...

The Christian observance of Ash Wednesday Feb. 18 this year and will mark the season of Lent, leading up to Easter. Lent is one of five key periods on the Catholic liturgical calendar, along with ...