Lent: Learning to Suffer? Or Learning to Love?
In New Orleans and other cities around the world, millions of people dressed up in elaborate costumes, watched parades, listened to music and partied the day away to celebrate Fat Tuesday, a period of revelry before Lent on
ROME — Pope Benedict XVI rode on a motorized cart in an Ash Wednesday procession, forsaking the traditional short walk between two Rome churches as the 84-year-old pontiff tries to conserve his energy. The pope wore
ROME — Pope Benedict XVI rode on a motorized cart in an Ash Wednesday procession, forsaking the traditional short walk between two Rome churches as the 84-year-old pontiff tries to conserve his energy. The pope wore
Lent helps spiritually prepare Roman Catholics for Easter, which this year falls on April 8. Benedict rubbed ashes on the foreheads of some faithful, as they approached him one by one, to symbolize mortality.
ROME — Pope Benedict XVI rode on a motorized cart in an Ash Wednesday procession, forsaking the traditional short walk between two Rome churches as the 84-year-old pontiff tries to conserve his energy. The pope wore