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For Catholics, Ash Wednesday is a day of fasting and abstinence. Adults are expected to eat only one full meal and two smaller meals, while avoiding meat. Other Christian traditions may observe ...

Wondering why a small dusty cross anoints the foreheads of Christians once a year? They're celebrating Ash Wednesday, which for many also marks the start of Lent, a 40-day period of penance and ...

The Vatican, though, made alternative plans for Ash Wednesday next week, making clear Francis still had a long road ahead. Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, a Vatican official and former vicar of Rome ...

AP Photo/Manu Fernandez People pray for Pope Francis at Almudena Cathedral in Madrid, Spain, on Thursday, Feb. 27. ROME (AP) — Pope Francis reached the two-week mark in his recovery from ...

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The Vatican, though, made alternative plans for Ash Wednesday next week, making clear Francis still had a long road ahead. Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, a Vatican official and former vicar of Rome ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis reached the two-week mark in his recovery from pneumonia today as doctors suggested he had overcome the most critical phase of the infection but held out on declaring ...

For several years now, we've been following a tantalizing story indicating that the high heat of the ash cloud generated when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD was sufficiently hot to turn one of ...

This year, Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent fall in the first week of March, almost a full month later. Here’s when Ash Wednesday, Lent, Good Friday and Easter 2025 are, their origins and why ...