Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Catholics pray the rosary while a priest marks people's foreheads with ashes during Ash Wednesday Mass at the Church of the ...

Lent, one of the five seasons on the Catholic liturgical calendar, begins this week and marks a 40‑day period of reflection and repentance leading up to Easter. The season calls for Catholics to ...

This is the week of Ash Wednesday, a solemn day of fasting and reflection that signals the start of Lent, the most penitential season of the church calendar for Catholics and many other Christians. On ...

FILE - Catholics pray the rosary while a priest marks people's foreheads with ashes during Ash Wednesday Mass at the Church of the Divine Child in Bogota, Colombia ...