Made of ashes and earth, we experience fragility through illness, poverty, and the hardships that can suddenly befall us and ...

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

A priest holds a vessel of ashes as Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary, celebrates Ash Wednesday ...

While Pope Francis remained hospitalized at Rome's Gemelli Hospital, Italian Cardinal Angelo De Donatis celebrated the Ash ...

The story of Easter is thus not about balancing or neutralizing sin but about the collapse of sin’s false narrative under the ...

The 40-day season of Lent began as Christian faithful around the world celebrated Ash Wednesday in preparation for Easter in ...

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent and its observance lasts for 40 days. Here's what to know about the Christian tradition.

Ashes in the form of a cross could be seen across the foreheads of many Catholics and Christians on March 5, marking the ...

Show Caption1 of 11 Visitors look at the paintings of the Stations of the Cross after receiving ashes during Ash Wednesday in the chapel at Mater Dolorosa Retreat Center in Sierra Madre on Wednesday ...

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire ... the salutation “Christós Anésti” (Christ has risen) to each other, which is responded to with the phrase “Alithós Anésti” (He has truly ...