Lent is a time when Catholics around the world are invited to pray, fast, and give alms as the Church prepares to enter once again into the passion, death, and resurrection of Christ. It is a time ...

Lent is a time of conversion and penance that the Catholic Church offers to believers to prepare for and live the Easter triduum — the mystery of the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus. During ...

Meatless Wednesdays and Fridays? No butter, cheese or eggs during Lent? More than a hundred fast or abstinence days per year? Maybe being a Catholic today isn’t so tough after all ... The Church has ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis increased his physical therapy with his condition remaining stable on Wednesday, marking the start of Lent by receiving ashes on his forehead and calling the parish priest in ...

LENTEN RULES JUST A LITTLE BIT THIS FRIDAY, SAINT PATRICK’S DAY FALLS ON A FRIDAY WHEN CATHOLICS DON’T NORMALLY EAT MEAT. THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DUBUQUE SAYS ITS PARISHIONERS ARE EXEMPT FROM THAT NO MEAT ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Many Catholics are getting ready to start their Lent season which begins with Ash Wednesday and ends on Easter Sunday. A local resident and a priest get ready to begin the ...

INCREASED HIS PHYSICAL ACTIVITY. THAT WHILE CHRISTIANS AROUND THE WORLD ARE RECOGNIZING ASH WEDNESDAY, MARKING THE BEGINNING OF LENT. MILWAUKEE CATHOLICS RECOGNIZE THE DAY WITH A MASS. THE FIRST ASH ...

CHICAGO — In many Catholic parishes, people are gathering for Friday night fish fries because they abstain from eating meat on Fridays during Lent. In Muslim homes, people are gathering every evening ...

I’m hardly Catholic anymore. Still, I wear the idea of my Catholicism as a romanticized badge of honor, taking pleasure in the idea that I once was a part of something truly controversial — and it ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The Catholic Choral Society will present its annual Lenten concert March 9 at 4 p.m. at St. Joseph ...

A plate of goat cheese bruschetta prepared by certified executive chef Jim Churches, president of the American Culinary Federation's Michigan Chefs de Cuisine Association and a member of St. Patrick ...