Is today Fat Tuesday? What is the meaning and why do we celebrate? Here's what we know from king cakes to Holy Week schedule.

Lent is a period of 40 days which many Christians observe as a time of fasting, abstinence and penitence - here is everything ...

The day earned its name from the Christian tradition of seeking absolution before the start of Lent. Pancakes became ...

If you are a member of one of a variety of Christian churches, you have entered the season of Lent, traditionally a time of ...

What date is Fat Tuesday? What is the meaning and why do Catholics celebrate? What we know from paczkis and king cakes to ...

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

Christians worldwide celebrate Shrove Tuesday. It's the last day before the 40-day Lent period of fasting and prayer.

After a Fat Tuesday filled with paczkis and pancakes ... observe the holiday through traditions of self-sacrifice including prayer and fasting. Lent will come to an end on a day known as Holy ...

Good morning. Today is Shrove Tuesday, historically the day for being shriven in preparedness for Ash Wednesday and the Lenten disciplines that will follow. To be shriven is to confess one sins ...