Pope Francis released an audio message to the faithful, the first communication from the pontiff since his hospitalization ...

Catholic cardinals in Rome marked the start of the Lent religious season on Wednesday without Pope Francis, as the ...

At Ash Wednesday services there was special consideration for the leader of the church, Pope Francis, as he remains ...

We have come in the Christian year to the season of Lent. Beginning on Ash Wednesday, which falls this year on March 5.

On Wednesday, Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, the Major Penitentiary, celebrated the traditional Mass beginning Lent at the ...

Ash Wednesday beings the Lenten season and some of our local neighbors are praying for Pope Francis and his health.

Fr. Boniface Ugwo, marks the sign of the cross with the ash on the forehead of a worshiper on Ash Wednesday at St. Francis ...

Pope Francis is resting after sleeping through the night with a ventilation mask as he undergoes hospital treatment for ...

While Pope Francis remained hospitalized at Rome's Gemelli Hospital, Italian Cardinal Angelo De Donatis celebrated the Ash ...

Made of ashes and earth, we experience fragility through illness, poverty, and the hardships that can suddenly befall us and ...

In his catechesis, the Holy Father also reflected on how Jesus’ parents, Mary and Joseph, had to mature in their own ...

Pope Francis, who is in hospital with pneumonia, "rested well" overnight while wearing an oxygen mask, the Vatican said ...