Lent's fasting, almsgiving and prayer bring strength, he tells pilgrims. A young woman with ashes on her forehead attends Pope Benedict XVI's general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican March 9.

The leader of southeastern Michigan's Catholics stood in the aisle at a historic church in downtown Detroit on Wednesday afternoon as worshippers waited in line to be blessed. Decked in a purple robe ...

Bert Ghezzi’s new book, The Power of Daily Mass makes a nine-point case for why Catholics should make daily Mass part of their routine. Its appearance is particularly timely during Lent, when many ...

MID-50’S COMING UP. PATRICK: MILWAUKEE ARCHBISHOP JEROME LISTECKI HELD HIS TRADIOITNAL ASH WEDNESDAY MASS AT PIUS HIGH SCHOOL. 12 NEWS’ GERRON JORDAN BNGRIS US THE MESSAGE FROM THE ARCHBISPHO AS THE ...

Hundreds of students at Our Lady of Prompt Succor School filed into the church sanctuary Wednesday morning, filling the front pews and awaiting the start of Mass in quiet reverence. Behind them were ...

Lenten soup luncheons, a tradition that began on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in 1993, take place every Wednesday during Lent in the Kittyhawk Chapel following the noon Mass. The simple meals of ...

WORCESTER - What’s old will be new again on Sunday morning at St. Joseph’s Church. For the Fifth Sunday in Lent the 9:30 a.m. Mass at the historic church on Grafton Hill will be celebrated “ad ...

ROME -- Pope Francis ushered in the annual Christian Lenten period of sacrifice and reflection by encouraging people on Ash Wednesday to cast off what he called the "dictatorship" of heavy agendas and ...

The daily Mass at St. Peter’s begins promptly at 7 a.m. From the church’s stone tower, bells ring out through the Capitol Hill neighborhood, resounding off nearby House office buildings. Out of a back ...

It is the spring sumo season in Japan, one of the six two-week periods of the year when the national sport is played out before huge crowds. But not this year. The media are showing the wrestling ...