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

The journey of Lent "unfolds amid the remembrance of our fragility," Pope Francis wrote in his homily for Ash Wednesday.

In his prepared March 5 catechesis, the Holy Father spoke about the 12-year-old Jesus’ desire to live his mission as the Son ...

The liturgy of Ash Wednesday has come to tell us something new about time, our time, and to invite us into a new ...