After the customary greetings, the penitent crosses himself: "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen." The priest urges the penitent to have confidence in God.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Catholic Church opened the solemn Lenten season leading to Easter on Wednesday ... It is an obligatory day of fasting and abstinence for Catholics that signals the start of ...

“Elphege Daignault will repent. The neighbors told me.” Good Catholic wives glanced at the crucifix on the wall, tried not to think of excommunicates. Elphege Daignault is an attorney-at-law ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Catholic Church opened the solemn Lenten ... Catholics that signals the start of Christianity’s most penitent season. Vatican prepares for Lent without Francis The ...

VATICAN CITY — The Catholic Church opened the solemn Lenten ... for Catholics that signals the start of Christianity's most penitent season. The pope was also supposed to attend a spiritual ...