Mardi Gras gives people the opportunity to celebrate before the Lenten season, where people become more disciplined and give ...

Also known as the Day of Ashes, this traditional day of repentance for Christians, and observed by various denominations, ...

It is a time to express devotion to spiritual matters rather than more corporeal pleasures, and some people are inspired by the arrival of Lent to make a voluntary, more contemporary, sacrifice, such ...

Shrove Tuesday also known as Pancake Day is an historic and religious event in the UK, but what's the reason we celebrate it?

This year, March 4 is Shrove Tuesday - otherwise known as Pancake Day. Shrove Tuesday is a Christian festival marked all over ...

For baby boomers who grew up attending Catholic school – or weekly classes on Sundays – in the 1960s and 1970s, the season of ...

Polish-American communities embrace pączki on Fat Tuesday, preserving family traditions and indulging in sweet, jelly-filled ...

The restaurant’s menu ranges from crabs (boiled, fried and steamed) to oysters to shrimp. Oh, and there’s chicken, too, and a heavenly stuffed potato.

Clad in sheep and goatskins with heavy hand-forged bronze bells chained to their waists, the Bell People danced through the ...

Cardinal Robert McElroy will be the principal celebrant and homilist for Ash Wednesday Mass at 12:10 p.m. on March at the ...

On Wednesday, many churches will mark the beginning of the liturgical season of Lent by holding Ash Wednesday services, in ...

The U K -based group Christian Concern has begun a Lent prayer campaign urging supporters to devote daily prayer time toward ...