"It's deeper than abstaining from ice cream," said Fr. Bill Swichtenberg of St. Mary Catholic Community in Appleton.

The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on the Thursday before Easter Sunday. This year, Ash Wednesday and the ...

Based on a myth first told in Greece over 2,500 years ago, Hadestown, now playing in Sydney, is a modern retelling of the ...

Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are known as obligatory days of abstinence. Children 14 and older are expected to abstain from meat. The observance of Ash Wednesday dates to the 11th century, according ...

Ash Wednesday is the first day of the season of Lent that leads up to Good Friday and Easter. What to know about the day.

As wildfires have burned recently across southern California, the ash from burned trees and brush is lifted in the air, then carried by the wind and eventually lands somewhere else. This ash is ...

Children and elderly people are usually exempt from fasting and giving up meat. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning ... engaging in prayer or what have you." This story was updated because ...

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Titled Finding Calm, the film tells the story of a first-time father who becomes ... we are thrilled to reveal the incredibly talented Will Ash joins the cast of Finding Calm and will be taking ...

Veteran defensive coordinator Chris Ash has been hired as Notre Dame's defensive coordinator, the school announced Saturday. Ash was an appealing choice because of his experience -- spending 24 ...

Veteran defensive coordinator Chris Ash has been hired as Notre Dame's defensive coordinator, the school announced Saturday. Ash was an appealing choice because of his experience -- spending 24 years ...