Ash Wednesday is the first day of the liturgical season of Lent. Members of the Catholic Church, ages 18 to 59, are required to observe Lent and fast on Ash Wednesday.

Ash Wednesday is the first day of the liturgical season of Lent that falls 6½ weeks before Easter each year. Members of the Catholic Church, ages 18 to 59, are required to observe Lent and fast ...

Catholic Priest of Our Lady Queen of Peace, Utako, Reverend Father Sebastian Sanni, has urged Christians to use the Lenten season to abstain from habits that might hinder their spiritual growth ...

A new rite published by the Vatican on Thursday will allow priests to celebrate a Mass to exhort Catholics to exercise care ...

As Lent began on Ash Wednesday (March 5), Catholic women frustrated over being disenfranchised by the church despite promises of greater recognition are going on strike, withholding numerous ...

I begin with Pray40, the daily Lent “prayer challenge” Hallow kicked off on Ash Wednesday. If the algorithm has marked you as even a little bit Catholic, as it has me, you’ve probably seen ...

(RNS) — With a Catholic clergy Lenten dance trend, a callout by pastor and Sen. Raphael Warnock and a prominent place in sermons by Black pastors, Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ is having ...

“For the African Catholic Church, this liturgical period presents a profound opportunity to engage in economic decolonization, dismantling the enduring structures of economic oppression ...

Christians around the world and in Michigan will begin the season of Lent this week, kicking off the period of time leading up to Easter on Ash Wednesday, March 5. The observance marks the first day ...

If women’s roles are a concern in U.S. churches, said Elisa Belotti, 28, a Catholic in Brescia, in northern Italy, simply not showing up at church gatherings or Mass would be counterproductive ...

Ash Wednesday is the first day of the liturgical season of Lent. Members of the Catholic Church, ages 18 to 59, are required to observe Lent and fast on Ash Wednesday.