Tag: Ash Wednesday

Lenten season began March 5, Ash Wednesday, as Catholics in the Diocese of Wilmington and across the globe attended Mass and received ashes marked...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- While Pope Francis' condition has continued to improve, the Vatican announced that he will not lead his traditional Ash Wednesday...

WASHINGTON -- In sharing the U.S. bishops' Lenten message this year, their pro-life chairman used it "to speak to all who carry the unbearable...

Kansas City Chiefs fans are looking forward to a Super Bowl victory parade Feb. 14 -- but for Catholics, who mark Ash Wednesday that...

WASHINGTON -- Catholic couples and liturgical experts are advising how to observe Ash Wednesday -- the beginning of the Latin C9s Day, Feb. 14,...

ROME-- What matters is the truth and the love that God sees, not what is superficial, showy and self-centered, Pope Francis said during a...

The experience of the sacrament of penance in the Roman rite will be slightly different this Lent, thanks to approved changes in the English...

Bishop Koenig called for Catholics in the Diocese of Wilmington to be especially attentive to the principles of Lent -- prayer, fasting, almsgiving –...

I spotted him sitting there as I hurried across the street, his head nodding from exhaustion and his light jacket doing little to shelter...

One of the challenges we Catholics face is the way in which our liturgical calendar almost becomes like white noise in the background. There is...