When it comes to pulling Catholics into pews, Christmas rites top the list – followed by a tie between Easter, the Christian calendar’s most joyous day, and Ash Wednesday, which ...

The bridge between Ash Wednesday and Easter is the penitential season of Lent. However, Lent is “not on the radar” for most Americans, according to a new Lifeway Research study focusing on Catholics, ...

(Photo: U.S. Navy/Wikimedia Commons) Marking the beginning of Lent, the White House hosted an Ash Wednesday Mass March 5 for the employees of the residence of the American president. An internal ...

The story took my breath away: an alcoholic in recovery found warmer welcome in Alcoholics Anon. meetings in church basements ...

Empty pews proved hard to find at Holy Guardian Angels Parish in Muhlenberg Township, for the third in a series of four planned Ash Wednesday masses. "It's always been a very positive day where ...

A new study has found that in many countries around the world, 20% or more of all adults have left their childhood religion.

Shameless plug, we’re here every week. We’d love to have you”  These words, issued by our very own Fr. Francis on this year’s Ash Wednesday 9pm mass, are ones I’m sure all of us who go to church have ...

A: Contrary to popular thinking, Ash Wednesday is not a holy day of obligation. You do not have to go to Mass that day or ...

If you give a ginger a Guinness, she’s going to want Lucky Charms. If you give a ginger Lucky Charms, she’s going to want a ...

Attendance at the 6:30 p.m. Ash Wednesday Mass celebrated in Spanish at St. Nicholas-St. Mary Roman Catholic Parish in Wilkes ...

Notre Dame lectures, a Lenten hallmark, have a long history dating back to the French monarchy, but in contemporary times were renewed and systematized in 1834 by a young lay Catholic student, ...

Notre Dame lectures, a Lenten hallmark, have a long history dating back to the French monarchy, but in contemporary times ...