Ash Wednesday falls on March 5 this year, marking the start of Lent. Here's why some people wear ashes on their foreheads ...

Also known as the Day of Ashes, this traditional day of repentance for Christians, and observed by various denominations, ...

Hundreds stopped to receive ashes during Bishop Cullinan’s six-hour mission — a sign that despite cultural shifts, the ...

Vice President J D Vance participated in the rituals of Ash Wednesday as he and other members of the Trump administration ...

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

Students at Saint Alphonsus Liguori Catholic School in Prospect Heights helped prepare the way for Ash Wednesday and the ...

Online shopping has become a way of life — even for the Catholic Church. In preparation for Ash Wednesday, a rising number of ...

The ashes are meant to move our hearts heavenward.

Ash Wednesday is a holy day of prayer, fasting and almsgiving that marks the start of the six weeks of penitence before ...

Pews were packed at an Ash Wednesday mass led by Miami’s Archbishop Thomas Wenski at Broward’s oldest Catholic Church earlier ...

The ashes are gathered from burning the previous year's palm branches used during Palm Sunday, according to britannica.com. The modern-day Roman Catholic Church is credited for applying the ashes ...