Lent is a 40-day season observed by many Christians that begins with Ash Wednesday and leads into the final weeks of the church calendar before Easter. The dates shift each year, but the season’s ...

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.

Ash Wednesday, in most Christian denominations, is the beginning of the Lenten season leading up to Easter Sunday. It takes ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis increased his physical therapy with his condition remaining stable on Wednesday, marking the start of Lent by receiving ashes on his forehead and calling the parish priest in ...

Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent, falls on March 5 in 2025. The date of Ash Wednesday changes each year because it depends on the lunar cycles that determine the date of Easter. Christians around the ...

The Lenten season is upon Catholics. To mark the beginning of the Lenten season, or the 40-day period prior to Easter, Catholic Cemeteries of Long Island held a Stations of the Cross prayer service in ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Catholic Lenten Season starts on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18 this year, which means the first fish-fry ...

Mexican painter Roberto Marquez places a painting of Pope Francis he made outside the Agostino Gemelli hospital in Rome, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope ...

VATICAN CITY — The Catholic Church opened the solemn Lenten season on Wednesday without the participation of Pope Francis, who was in the third week of hospital treatment for double pneumonia. A ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis increased his physical therapy with his condition remaining stable on Wednesday, marking the start of Lent by receiving ashes on his forehead and calling the parish priest in ...