Catholic cardinals in Rome marked the start of the Lent religious season on Wednesday without Pope Francis, as the ...

We have come in the Christian year to the season of Lent. Beginning on Ash Wednesday, which falls this year on March 5.

On Wednesday, Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, the Major Penitentiary, celebrated the traditional Mass beginning Lent at the ...

Ash Wednesday beings the Lenten season and some of our local neighbors are praying for Pope Francis and his health.

Pope Francis is resting after sleeping through the night with a ventilation mask as he undergoes hospital treatment for ...

In his catechesis, the Holy Father also reflected on how Jesus’ parents, Mary and Joseph, had to mature in their own ...

Made of ashes and earth, we experience fragility through illness, poverty, and the hardships that can suddenly befall us and ...

Pope Francis released an audio message to the faithful, the pontiff's first communication since his hospitalization last month.

Fr. Boniface Ugwo, marks the sign of the cross with the ash on the forehead of a worshiper on Ash Wednesday at St. Francis ...

It is the sixth consecutive year that Pope Francis has not participated in a joint Lenten retreat with the cardinals of the ...

Pope Francis, who is in hospital with pneumonia, "rested well" overnight while wearing an oxygen mask, the Vatican said ...

The Pope is Stable but "Not Out of Danger" Limited Public Presence. Pope Francis has not made any public appearances since ...