Today is Ash Wednesday, and Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pontiff, has something he wants you to give up for Lent. “I would like to invite you to a very practical and frequently unappreciated form ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV opened the church’s penitential Lenten season by presiding over Ash Wednesday and lamenting the “ashes of international law and justice” that have been left by today’s wars ...

Pope Leo lamented a world "in flames" due to wars and the destruction of the environment during an Ash Wednesday Mass, ...

How rare it is to find adults who repent — individuals, businesses and institutions that admit they have done wrong,” Pope Leo said in his homily in the Basilica of Santa Sabina.

The state of the world, Pope Leo stressed, asks us on this Ash Wednesday “to call death for what it is, and to carry its ...

Pope Leo XIV has opened the church's penitential Lenten season by presiding over Ash Wednesday.

Pope Leo XIV led a solemn penitential procession to Rome's oldest extant basilica, marking the first Ash Wednesday of his pontificate.

"As we journey through a world marked by division, let us ask the Lord to continue to guide his Church in the mission of sanctification and reconciliation." ...

On Ash Wednesday, Pope Leo XIV encouraged Catholics to ask the Lord for “the gift of true conversion” at the start of the ...

"How rare it is to find adults who repent -- individuals, businesses and institutions that admit they have done wrong," Pope Leo said.

Beneath the Roman pines of the Aventine Hill, Pope Leo XIV led a solemn penitential procession Feb. 18 to Rome's oldest extant basilica, marking the first Ash Wednesday of his pontificate with a call ...