While many gathered today to receive ashes, a symbol of faith, worshippers in North Beach also lifted up special prayers for ...
As Catholics around the world celebrated the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday, congregants in Nigeria took a moment to pray for ...
On Ash Wednesday, observant Catholics receive a sign of the cross in ashes on their foreheads, a gesture that underscores ...
The call of Lent, Pope Francis wrote, is a call to turn to the Lord and so become "a sign of hope for the world." ...
The Catholic Church has opened the solemn Lenten season without the participation of Pope Francis, who was in the third week ...