The timing of Lent varies from year to year and is tied to the spring equinox. Here are 2025's key dates, including Easter.

Is today Fat Tuesday? What is the meaning and why do we celebrate? Here's what we know from king cakes to Holy Week schedule.

What date is Fat Tuesday? What is the meaning and why do Catholics celebrate? What we know from paczkis and king cakes to ...

The clip actually shows the Pakistan flag hoisted before Holy Week 2024 to commemorate the country’s national day.

The clip shows the Pakistani flag being flown from the abbey on 22 March 2024, two days before Holy Week began on 24 March, to mark Pakistan’s national day. The St Peter flag was the only flag flown ...

Noticing people with smudges on their foreheads today? It is Ash Wednesday, kicking off the 40-day Lenten season of prayer, sacrifice and fish Fridays ...

Pope Francis remained in Rome's Gemelli Hospital on Saturday recovering from double pneumonia as the Vatican’s Holy Year ...

Here’s the origin of Ash Wednesday, Lent, Good Friday and Easter, when Lent ends and why the dates they fall on change every year.

As Easter is determined by the lunar cycles of the Jewish calendar, Lent changes dates each year, but its importance remains ...

Pope Francis is continuing his recovery from double pneumonia as the Vatican’s Holy Year is proceeding without him ...

Pope Francis had a "good night" as he enters his third week of treatment for double pneumonia at Rome’s Gemelli hospital, the ...