Ash Wednesday is today, marking the start of Lent and the Christian Easter Season. The holy day, also known as the Day of ...

The Vatican has clarified that Catholics in the United States must still attend Mass on holy days of obligation even when they are transferred to Mondays or Saturdays, correcting a long-standing ...

With Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent behind us, Easter Sunday is right around the corner – preceded by another Christian holy day: Good Friday. Following the Lent season, when some indulge in ...

“These words of Isaiah, ‘Who has believed our report? … There is no beauty in Him, no comeliness …’ have been the whole foundation of my devotion to the Holy Face, or, to express it better, the ...

Easter is just days away, marking an end to the Lenten season — often observed by the religious as giving up something for weeks and abstaining from meat on Fridays — as the final days of Holy Week, ...

Pope Leo XIV receives enthusiastic welcome from Turkey’s Catholics as he opens key day in first tripBy NICOLE WINFIELD, ANDREW WILKS and TRISHA THOMASAssociated PressThe Associated PressISTANBUL, ...