Lent is a 40-day period preceding Easter Sunday where people from all denominations of Christianity practice self-sacrifice ...

As Europe and the rest of the Western world have seen the number of Catholics drop, the Catholic church has been growing in Africa, Asia and South America. Chicago’s Catholic population remains ...

On Ash Wednesday, observant Catholics receive a sign of the cross in ashes on their foreheads, a gesture that underscores human mortality. It is an obligatory day of fasting and abstinence for ...

Catholics in Chicago participated in Ash Wednesday, an important day especially as Pope Francis' health is in decline.