Fat Tuesday marks the beginning of Lent. Here's everything to know about, and if celebrating Fat Tuesday is considered ...

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.

Easter is fast approaching, and the season begins with Ash Wednesday and Lent for Christians. Here's when.

It's Ash Wednesday, marking the start of the Easter season for Christians. So what does Ash Wednesday mean? Here's what to ...

St. John Paul II, Pope of the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005, once said “the Church must breathe with her two lungs.” Those two lungs, the Eastern Catholic Church and the Roman ...

Lent, a period of prayer and fasting, begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Thursday. Many Christians observe Lent by giving up something they enjoy, such as sweets or alcohol. Ash Wednesday, the ...

The Lenten season is upon Catholics. To mark the beginning of the Lenten season, or the 40-day period prior to Easter, Catholic Cemeteries of Long Island held a Stations of the Cross prayer service in ...

Boxes of fasnachts and Valentine chocolates may be flying off the shelves this week, but as the Catholic Lenten season arrives, fish is the new hot commodity. Lent, a 40-day season commemorating the ...