It's 40 days after Easter. Is it the Ascension?

Liturgically, that depends on where you live.

Thursday marks 40 days after Easter, which the Church observes as the Solemnity of the Ascension.

“The Ascension.” Pietro Perugino, 1510. public domain.

Traditionally, the Ascension is a day of precept, meaning Catholics are required to attend Mass.

But after a change to canon law — and a 1998 decree from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops —…