As Christians around the world mark the start of the season of Lent at Ash Wednesday services, the pope is taking part in ...

Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent. Here's everything to know about why it is celebrated by Christians, where to get the ...

Christians hear the words "Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return." Those words ring differently for many ...

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

Other historians say around the the year 1000, a priest named Aelfric said members of the church should put ashes upon their ...

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

This is the 10th year that St. Matthew Church in Norwalk hit the streets with its Ashes-to-Go bus, where it meets the faithful where they are on Ash Wednesday.

In the weeks leading up to Ash Wednesday, the Rev. Edward Yuhas of St. James and St. Katharine Drexel parishes in Washington County, begins collecting palm branches from parishioners.

As said by clergy at many graveside services, “ashes to ashes, dust to dust.” On Ash Wednesday, we remember that we are ashes — mortal — as actual ashes are placed on our foreheads as a ...

Thanks for joining today’s study about ashes, prompted this week by Ash Wednesday. If you are unfamiliar with Ash Wednesday, it marks the beginning of Lent — 40 days that ends on Palm Sunday ...

Michael Allen is an Advisor to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Some viewers of “The Brutalist” are probably getting their first taste of Brutalism, the architectural style that ...