See photos below ... Deacon Dave Rohner does the Ash Wednesday reading at St. Theresa of the Child Jesus Roman Catholic Church in Hellertown. Catholics around the Lehigh Valley attended services ...

New York's Catholics observe the start of Lent throughout the city on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Today marks the beginning of Christianity's 40 days of prayer, fasting and giving ahead of ...

receives ashes Wednesday from Terry Nelson-Johnson, pastoral minister at Old St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, at Mary Bartelme Park on the Near West Side. Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times Share Ash ...

The Associated Press has photos from the Philippines of the faithful observing Ash Wednesday ... as Catholics in the this predominantly Roman Catholic nation observe the start of lent.

pastor of the Roman Catholic church. Adults, families and children attended other services throughout the day for Ash Wednesday, a Christian holy day of fasting and prayer. It is the start of the ...

During the morning, the pope participated in an Ash ... Wednesday, "without any episodes of respiratory insufficiency," according to a new update by the Vatican. The pope, 88, called the Catholic ...

The Argentine pontiff, head of the worldwide Catholic Church ... to the Santa Sabina Basilica for the Ash Wednesday celebration in Rome. Picture: Getty Images On Monday, Francis “experienced ...

AFP/Getty Images The Catholic Church began the solemn Lenten ... between two churches on Rome's Aventine Hill. During the Ash Wednesday homily, which had been prepared for the pontiff, the ...

On this Ash Wednesday ... faith is everything – the Catholic couple has traveled the globe on mission trips, but on Wednesday night, they were back at their home church, Saint Mark in Argyle.

Evans, the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City vicar general and moderator of the curia, presided over Ash Wednesday mass for ...