Alvin Yesudas, a Catholic in the southern Indian state of Kerala, began Lent on Ash Wednesday. His neighbor Babu Antony, also a Catholic, started two days earlier. During Lent, both their families ...

many Catholics across Northwest Indiana will observe the first day of Lent on Ash Wednesday by getting repentance ashes smudged in a cross on their foreheads. Here's where to go to get marked ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Pope Francis is stable after suffering from two respiratory episodes this week. The 88-year-old Pope has chronic lung disease. This Ash Wednesday, millions of Catholics are ...

Weisenburger of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson is reminding parishioners that “Ash Wednesday is not a Holy Day of Obligation.” But he recognized its an important beginning to Lent.

Ash Wednesday marks the start of the season of Lent in the church. Join us for a penitential service, where we receive a mark of ashes as a reminder that we are created from dust, and to dust we will ...

The Target boycott is working — and now Black America must hold Dollar General accountable for failing to invest in the ...

The United States is home to 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope. That's more than any other nation except Italy, home to 17 of the electors who will gather at the Vatican’s ...

Although Ash Wednesday is not a Holy Day of Obligation in the Catholic church, this service -- which initiates the liturgical season of Lent -- is well-attended, according to Monsignor R.