Led by Cardinal Blase Cupich, the crowd prayed and marched with love and without chaos.

How rare it is to find adults who repent — individuals, businesses and institutions that admit they have done wrong,” Pope Leo said in his homily in the Basilica of Santa Sabina.

Many of us were baptized as infants, so we have no memory of the event. A real memory of the day would mean so much! In a way ...

Pope Leo XIV marked the beginning of Lent with the traditional procession on Rome's Aventine Hill on Ash Wednesday.

Cardinal Blase Cupich led a Mass in Chicago, which was attended by relatives of those who have been detained or deported.

Pope Leo XIV has opened the church's penitential Lenten season by presiding over Ash Wednesday.

Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich told immigrants that Trump administration deportation efforts had acquainted them with Ash Wednesday’s Scripture passage about practicing faith in secret.

In his homily, the Pope urged Catholics to treat Lent as a time when the Church is renewed as a true community, even as modern society finds it harder to come together in communion.

Ash Wednesday at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City was led by the newly-installed Archbishop Ronald Hicks.

The Department of Homeland Security complied with a federal judge’s Feb. 12 order to allow members of the Chicago-based ...

FILIPINO Catholics will flock to churches today, Feb. 18, to have their foreheads smeared with ash in observance of Ash Wednesday, which marks the start of the Lenten season. Ash Wednesday signals the ...

Today, Wednesday, February 18, is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent 2026. “Lent” is Latin-derived from the Greek meaning, “fortieth day.” Forty has various meanings in the Bible but […] ...