(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 24 - Pope Francis presided over the Palm Sunday Mass in St Peter's Square on Sunday, but he spoke with a weak voice at the start of the service and failed to read out the homily ...

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

Prosecutors and judges at Louisville's Jefferson County District Court hope their unlawful-camping docket can serve as a model for getting defendants into shelter, affordable housing, or substance ...

Each year in early spring, Christians across the globe celebrate their faith on Easter. Easter commemorates the resurrection ...

So at Palm Sunday Mass, there is a blessing of palms which the faithful hold as they process into church. The blessed palms are later kept in the home as a witness to faith in Jesus Christ ...

Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, Christianity's 40-day season of prayer and fasting leading up to Jesus ...

The Roman Missal, which prescribes the ritual for Ash Wednesday, explains that at Mass the ashes made from the palms blessed on Palm Sunday of the previous year are blessed and placed on the ...

Ash Wednesday is a holy day of reflection and repentance in the Christian faith. Believers observe the day by fasting and receiving ashes in the shape of a cross on their forehead.