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 ...

A federal judge ordered immigration authorities to allow religious leaders inside the facility for Ash Wednesday.

About 68,000 people are being held in immigration detention centers, compared with about 40,000 people a year ago, according ...

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 ...

Ashes formed in the cross mark the forehead of a parishioner during an Ash Wednesday Mass at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Charlotte, NC on Wednesday, February 18, 2026. Bishop Michael Martin is ...

Both the GU campus chapel and St. Aloysius Church provided Masses on Feb. 18 for Ash Wednesday as a time of reflection and ...

We should not be surprised if Catholics are asked to pay a price for what their leaders are compelled to do in service of the ...

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 ...

Last week, hundreds of students and New Yorkers took a break from their typical Wednesday routine to receive ashes on their foreheads in the shape of a cross at The Catholic Center at NYU. The ...

Minnesota clergy are suing the federal government, alleging they were repeatedly barred from providing spiritual counsel to U ...

Lent says: love is not safe. But it is real. This does not mean accepting abuse or glorifying suffering—I need to be clear ...

A former Immigration and Customs Enforcement lawyer says the agency’s training for new deportation officers is broken as ICE ...