If you’re not familiar with the ins and outs of Lent, we’ve picked four symbols associated with the period to help explain why and how Christians mark this time of year. Lent lasts for 40 days ...

"It's deeper than abstaining from ice cream," said Fr. Bill Swichtenberg of St. Mary Catholic Community in Appleton.

Fr. Simon Teller, O.P., a Dominican friar and associate chaplain at Providence College in Rhode Island, revealed the role of ...

Ashes are a symbol of penance ... common practice in the Catholic church to abstain from eating meat on Fridays during the Lenten season. In advance of the start of Lent, there is Fat Tuesday ...

Today, Feb. 22, is Ash Wednesday. Ashes were a symbol of mourning in the OT (Old Testament). You put them on yourself, heaped on your head like ...