Some important facts to understand the meaning and importance of Lent, Ash Wednesday and Easter.

Feb. 18 will mark the beginning of Lent, a time when Catholics fast, reflect, and focus on strengthening their relationship ...

Lent is a 40-day season observed by many Christians that begins with Ash Wednesday and leads into the final weeks of the church calendar before Easter. The dates shift each year, but the season’s ...

Ash Wednesday is the first day of the season of Lent that leads up to Good Friday and Easter. What to know about the day.

Lent offers us the opportunity to spend time asking ourselves who we are at our core and who God wants to help us become.

Fat Tuesday — "mardi gras" in French — is Tuesday, Feb. 17, one last hurrah before Christians begin observing Lent on Ash ...

Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a season kept by millions and millions of Christians around the world. This season has a bad reputation. Too many people think of Lent merely as a time for ...

It’s hard to believe that we are already at the end of Lent. Perhaps you’re feeling like you’ve missed the opportunity to make this season meaningful, or maybe you feel like the days have slipped by ...

Wednesday, March 5, marks the beginning of Lent, a season observed by Christians around the world. This time has traditionally been kept by Roman Catholics, Orthodox, Anglicans, and some others. But ...

Lent, which began last week, is not well understood even by many of the Catholics who observe it. It’s a “penitential season” lasting 40 days — not counting Sundays — from Ash Wednesday to Holy ...

The Filet-o-Fish is on the McDonald's menu all year, but the chain sells a genuinely staggering number of the fish sandwiches ...