We usually give up something for Lent, and so much already has been taken away. Forty days of fasting and regret seems ...

Fasnacht Day is an annual Pennsylvania Dutch celebration that falls on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday.

A Catholic parish in Des Moines says winter weather will not cancel their plans to commemorate Mardi Gras and Ash Wednesday this week. St. Theresa Catholic Church will have a Mardi Gras celebration ...

As they say in Louisiana, “everywhere else, it’s just Tuesday.” However, the spirit of Mardi Gras lives on in Central Texas ...