What is Ash Wednesday? Ash Wednesday is the first day of the Lent season, and is 6.5 weeks before Easter Sunday. According to Catholic tradition, Ash Wednesday is a day of fasting and prayer.

Siouxland Catholic parishes will celebrate Ash Wednesday, Feb. 25, with services at different times from their regular schedules.

Amid ash and loss, the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage brings hope to the streets once consumed by flames.

COMMENTARY: The rough-and-tumble correspondence between two women, one Catholic and one Unitarian, provides one model of how people who disagree can speak to each other.

She was born in the United States and the Fourteen Amendment of the Constitution prevents the government from taking away citizenship.