The calendar date for Easter changes from year to year because the religious holiday is generally observed on the first ...

An Arizona couple whose toddler survived a drowning incident March 2 is attributing his miraculous recovery to intercessions ...

Archbishop Hebda said that the word for humility comes from the Latin word “humus,” for earth or ground. To him, there’s an immediate connection between humility and the spreading of the ashes on Ash ...

Here’s when Easter and the easter weekend will fall this year - and why Easter and Good Friday are slightly later in 2025.

Lent 2025: why are Christians observing it and when does it end? - Deciding what to give up for Lent is a personal choice, ...

The second attempt to redevelop the 90-acre Good Counsel Hill, once home to a congregation of Catholic sisters and a girls ...

Fasting is the act of doing with less. In the Catholic Church, those ages 18 - 59 must fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday (Canon 97). On such days, those fasting may eat one full meal ...

A: Contrary to popular thinking, Ash Wednesday is not a holy day of obligation. You do not have to go to Mass that day or ...

ASH GROVE, Mo. (KY3) - On Thursday, the KY3 First Alert Weather Tour stopped in Ash Grove. The community met many members of the KY3 News team, received safety information from Greene County ...

Most believers consider abstinence and fasting as helpful to their faith and as acts similar to prayer, survey finds ...