Ash Wednesday lands on Feb. 18, 2026. Lent is the 40-day period (not including Sundays) leading up to Easter. Lent begins on ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Parishioners gathered for a memorial Mass Wednesday night at the Basilica of the Sacred ...

The Carnival season, which includes Mardi Gras, began on Jan. 6, also known as the Twelfth Night or Epiphany, and ends the ...

Ash Wednesday can take place anywhere from Feb. 4 through March 10, and this year, it falls on the earlier side.

The Office for the Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff has released Pope Leo’s calendar for January and February, ...

I have been thinking a lot about performance lately. Well, performative Christianity, that is. Like many Catholics, I attended Ash Wednesday mass, as did Gov. Mike Braun. Unlike Braun, I did not stop ...

Q: Recently, in some locations in the Davenport Diocese, Ash Wednesday Masses were canceled due to inclement weather. Is Ash Wednesday ever rescheduled or can ashes be distributed on another day? A: ...

If you give a ginger a Guinness, she’s going to want Lucky Charms. If you give a ginger Lucky Charms, she’s going to want a four-leaf clover—the list continues with all the Irish nosh and haberdashery ...

The traditional "Lenten Conferences" resumed at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris this Lenten season, for the first time since the fire of April 15, 2019. Lent 2025 is also marked by record participation ...

DORCHESTER -- Beginning the solemn season of Lent on Ash Wednesday, March 5, Archbishop Richard G. Henning celebrated the first of his three public Masses of the day for the 1,500 students of Boston ...

For the faithful who have descended on Rome for an event that comes every 25 years, the absence of the pope has been especially deeply felt. By Emma Bubola Reporting from the Vatican Rome had spent ...

Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory, right, the retiring archbishop of Washington, dispenses ashes to Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, during Ash Wednesday Mass March 5, 2025, at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the ...