"It's deeper than abstaining from ice cream," said Fr. Bill Swichtenberg of St. Mary Catholic Community in Appleton.

Ashes will be distributed during all services that will be held at various times on Ash Wednesday, March 5, at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church, 1500 Brookdale Road, Naperville, to mark the ...

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.

The observance marks the start of lent, the season leading up to Easter; it's is one of five key periods on the Catholic liturgical calendar, along with Advent, Christmas, Easter, and Ordinary ...

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President Donald Trump, elected in part due to his hardline immigration stance and “America First” foreign policy, has moved ...

Lent is the 46-day liturgical season that precedes the holiday of Easter ... according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. USA Today adds that during Lent, Catholics and Christians ...

Tomorrow (Thursday) night the AGM of the Bray Cualann Historical Society, the local history society for Bray and North ...

Mardi Gras in New Orleans, has been in full swing since Jan. 6 and will close with a final celebration on March 4 with a Fat Tuesday celebration.

Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese for Military Services and president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), thanked Pope Francis for his “prayerful support” and ...

Sunday Mass attendance in person at Catholic Churches in the U.S. is back to pre-pandemic levels – although just under one ...

The international relief organization founded by U.S. bishops in 1943 is in crisis after sweeping foreign aid cuts by the ...