On this Ash Wednesday, Catholics around the world are ... That health battle is weighing especially heavy on a Denton County ...

DUTERTES’ SINS. Palm fronds symbolizing the ‘sins’ of the Duterte family are burned ahead of Ash Wednesday in a ritual at Sacred Heart Parish-Shrine in Kamuning, Quezon City, March 4 ...

Ash Wednesday marks the first day of Lent ... wearing new clothes and engaging in family gatherings. Presley Bo Tyler is a reporter for the Louisiana Deep South Connect Team for Gannett/USA ...

Vatican Makes New Plans for Ash Wednesday as Worst Is Apparently Over ... “He is like part of the family,” said Araceli Gutiérrez, who treasures the time she saw the pope during his trip ...

Celebrations in the west include church services, egg decorations and egg hunts, Easter baskets and family meals ... In Western churches it begins on Ash Wednesday, six and a half weeks before ...

During an Ash Wednesday service, church leaders reflected on the legacy the former Houston mayor and lifelong public servant left behind. “Beloved church family, Ash Wednesday has new meaning ...

the Argentine priest who is the parish priest of the Holy Family church in Gaza. It was the third time they have spoken since the pope was hospitalized Feb. 14. Lent begins with Ash Wednesday and ...