What is Ash Wednesday? Ash Wednesday is the first day of the Lent season, and is 6.5 weeks before Easter Sunday. According to Catholic tradition, Ash Wednesday is a day of fasting and prayer.

Small, spicy yeast rolls decorated with a cross are a Good Friday tradition and are showing up in grocery stores and bakeries. Hot cross buns were among the earliest Easter treats, made by ...

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Lent is the time before Easter during which the faithful abstain and fast in remembrance of the ultimate sacrifice Jesus made on Calvary. It is a 40-day time of preparation before Easter, the ...

Comfortably at home, Zarutska, who went by Liuda, settled in to watch the news, as Ukrainians anxious about the war with ...

Back from offering interim ministry in Grenada, Jonathan Meyrick hopes that his trip will inspire other retired priests ...

In June 1982, the BBC reported on the death of Italian banker Roberto Calvi, whose body was found in central London.

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When Thomas Jefferson and James Madison made an early-summer tour of the Northeast, they became closer friends while seeking ...

Letting go of that belief felt like liberation. I didn’t have to identify with the label “Christian” anymore or look to a book to justify what I already felt was ...