Tag: Ash Wednesday

Welcome to The Dialog’s Lenten Journey for 2021, “Forty Days, Forty Deeds.” Throughout the season, we will be offering suggestions for acts of prayer, kindness...

VATICAN CITY — Ash Wednesday and Lent are a time to recall that new life emerges from the ashes and that spring blossoms from...

Last year's Lent felt as if it never ended. There was not the usual release and elation of Easter as I watched from my...

MANILA, Philippines -- An archdiocese in the Philippines will allow churchgoers to distribute ashes among family members at home to mark the beginning of...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis will celebrate Ash Wednesday Mass Feb. 17 in St. Peter's Basilica rather than making the traditional walk from the...

WASHINGTON — Ash Wednesday, as with many other things right now, will have a different look at many Catholic parishes across the United States...

I first met Glenn in the summer of 2000 after I had begun a weekly ministry on Ohio's death row. In early 2006 I...

COLUMBUS, Ind. — Smoke billowed from a small fire pit, rising nearly as high as the steeple of St. Bartholomew Church in Columbus. About 100...

One of my brothers observed recently about our dear mother, lying in the hospital: "There's no meat on her bones, and no bones under...

When I was in college there was a group of students who didn't always practice their faith, but when Ash Wednesday rolled around all...