Crosses marked with ash adorn the foreheads of many during an Ash Wednesday Mass at the St. Anthony of Padua-St. Victor Catholic Church in Tamuning on March 6, 2019. PDN file photo ...

In the early half of the 20th century, beginning in 1917, Mexico’s government began persecuting Catholics. A new constitution outlawed Catholic teaching, banned religious orders, and claimed all ...

Catholics across Northwest Indiana will get marked with ashes on Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent.

Indoor mass will be allowed as of Feb. 15, and including on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 17, with social distancing, mask requirements and maximum capacities at each Catholic church.

Dorsey Prince, right, and Shannon Carter pray during an Ash Wednesday Mass at St. John Neumann Catholic Church on Wednesday Feb. 22, 2023. Ash Wednesday marks the first day of Lent, a 40-day ...

It was Ash Wednesday. Poplavskaya spent the whole day with a young Catholic priest, Father Kirill Bardonov, from a small town ...

Although Ash Wednesday is not a Holy Day of Obligation in the Catholic church, this service -- which initiates the liturgical season of Lent -- is well-attended, according to Monsignor R. Mark ...

These are the death notices published in this week's editions of The Sentinel. Our thoughts are with the families and friends ...

The town of Taybeh is the last entirely Christian town in the occupied West Bank, representing “a unique presence in the ...

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Though I stopped dressing up for church, at the core of my being there is still a well-dressed girl from Queens.

Back from offering interim ministry in Grenada, Jonathan Meyrick hopes that his trip will inspire other retired priests ...