FILE - Catholics pray the rosary while a priest marks people's foreheads with ashes during Ash Wednesday Mass at the Church of the Divine Child in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. This is ...

HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) -The Shenandoah Valley has certainly seen its share of snowstorms. The worst storm on record, though, is the Ash Wednesday storm of 1962. This storm was a slow-moving, ...

A pivotal period, Lent is a 40-day season of penance that is observed by many Christian denominations. Lent began on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18, and ends during Holy Week, starting on Palm Sunday, March ...

On Ash Wednesday, three religious crossed into the ICE detention facility in Broadview, Illinois, the first time in months that Catholic leaders had been allowed inside to administer sacraments to ...

It’s springtime for U2 fans. Last week saw the release of their first new music in nine years, in the shape of a six-song EP, ...

Ash Wednesday heralds the start of Lent. A delicious side benefit of the season is the return of the ever popular Fish Fry Fridays.

Bono has launched an incendiary musical broadside at Donald Trump's brutal immigration policies – and allies of the president are now warning U2 could be barred from touring the United States in ...

This Ash Wednesday many Christians will arrive at work with a black cross smudged on their foreheads; countless more will slip into a church or a chapel during their lunch break or after work to ...

Pope Leo XIV has opened the church’s penitential Lenten season by presiding over Ash Wednesday. He is lamenting the “ashes of ...

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season for many Christians. The ashes, made from the previous year's burnt palm branches, symbolize mortality and repentance. Lent is a 40-day period of ...

This is Ash Wednesday, a solemn day of fasting and reflection that signals the start of Lent, the most penitential season of the church calendar for Catholics and many other Christians. On Ash ...