Mardi Gras is a French expression meaning Fat Tuesday. It refers to the last day of indulgence allowed before Christians begin their fasting season of Lent. Ash Wednesday traditionally serves as a ...

During his first Ash Wednesday as pope, Leo framed Lent as a communal reckoning with personal and structural sin.

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the season of Lent, leading up to observances of Jesus’ death on Good Friday and resurrection on Easter. Ash Wednesday is designated by counting backward 40 days ...

Here's everything you need to know about the start of both Ash Wednesday and Lent, and more on how these traditions came to ...

It’s hard to fall when you’re always on your knees. Moral failing cannot gain a stronghold in a broken, praying heart that spends time in the Word and obedience to it (cf. James 1:22). Nine times out ...

How rare it is to find adults who repent — individuals, businesses and institutions that admit they have done wrong,” Pope Leo said in his homily in the Basilica of Santa Sabina.

Beneath the Roman pines of the Aventine Hill, Pope Leo XIV led a solemn penitential procession Feb. 18 to Rome's oldest extant basilica, marking the first Ash Wednesday of his pontificate.

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent in Western Christianity. Here's what ash means on Ash Wednesday as well as the history of how this tradition came to be.

The hope that the church can provide parents is not the promise that God will assuredly save their children, but that assuredly God is almighty, gracious, and abounding in steadfast love. Parents of ...

Hundreds of people gave their lives to Jesus in the world's southernmost city last weekend during a two-day evangelistic ...

Ash Wednesday is a day away and begins the Christian season of Lent 2026. The 6-week period that leads up to Easter. What we ...