The season lasts for 40 days, ending during Holy Week, the final week before Easter. In the Roman Catholic Church, Lent ends ...

We all need to repent for complicity in licensing Donald Trump to unleash an agenda of retribution and meanness throughout ...

Fat Tuesday — Mardi Gras in French — is celebrated the day before Ash Wednesday. This year, Mardi Gras falls on March 4. The ...

Catholics who abstain from eating meat on Fridays during Lent have an exception when it comes to alligators and other ...

Cardinal Wilton Gregory (at right), the retiring archbishop of Washington, dispenses ashes to Cardinal Robert McElroy, the ...

During the 8th to 10th centuries, this practice fell by the wayside and the penitential season of Lent started being marked with ashes placed on the heads of the entire congregation. The ashes are ...

Photos: Catholics around the Lehigh Valley attended services to mark Ash Wednesday, observed on the first day of Lent.

The Diocese of St. Petersburg has a list of parishes and schools in Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Hernando and Citrus ...

Christians of varying denominations are observing Lent at this time of year. That means for some abstinence from various food ...