The faithful trudged up the hill to Mater Dolorosa Passionist Retreat Center on the first Ash Wednesday after the ... Insurance won’t cover everything, so the religious order that runs the ...

A young woman receives ashes marking Ash Wednesday inside the Notre-Dame de ... in French (for Editions Salvator) Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy by the Acton ...

A church in Los Angeles is asking for prayers after it was vandalized on Ash Wednesday, a holy day in Catholicism. The vandalism occurred at Our Mother of Good Counsel church in the Los Feliz ...

Pope Francis marked Ash Wednesday on his 20th day in Rome's Gemelli hospital ... any episodes of "respiratory insufficiency," the Vatican said in its evening medical bulletin March 5. The pope ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Holy Cross Catholic Church in Santa Barbara took Ash Wednesday to the streets. For the second consecutive year, the church hosted a drive-thru Ash Wednesday service on ...

OR BY CAR. PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE PARTICIPATING IN ASH WEDNESDAY, REGARDLESS OF DENOMINATION. IT KIND OF MIGHT HAVE ITS ROOTS IN CATHOLICISM, BUT IT IS CERTAINLY NOT UNIQUE TO CATHOLICISM.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Ash Wednesday is a day observed by some Christians that marks the beginning of Lent. One Sioux Falls church is observing the day a little differently than most churches.

Trinity Lutheran Church in Mount Joy hosted Ash Wednesday activities geared toward children and youth Wednesday evening. Open to the public, the event featured a soup supper; a church service ...

Yesterday, March 5, churches were filled with worshippers present for this year’s Ash Wednesday Mass and ritual. As priests and ministers applied ash on the forehead, churchgoers heard this ...

While Pope Francis remained in Rome's Gemelli Hospital, Italian Cardinal Angelo De Donatis celebrated the Ash Wednesday Mass in his place in a poignant ceremony at the Basilica of Santa Sabina on ...

Lent has begun for many in typical ways, with fish fries as well as Ash Wednesday worship services or occasions where one could stop and get ashes given out drive-by style. In churches such as one ...