Ash Wednesday has come and gone and Lent has begun. With it comes memes about fasting and the oddities of what the Church does and doesn’t consider meat. Lent is a significant period in the Christian ...

Lent, the season of penitence, is the preparation of the soul to accompany the Lord in the Passion. It begins now, and ...

The Lenten ritual is six weeks of abstinence and fasting that emerged out of pagan practices. The word itself derived from ...

In his catechesis, the Holy Father also reflected on how Jesus’ parents, Mary and Joseph, had to mature in their own ...

Made of ashes and earth, we experience fragility through illness, poverty, and the hardships that can suddenly befall us and ...

Vice President J D Vance participated in the rituals of Ash Wednesday as he and other members of the Trump administration ...

A cluster of new and forthcoming titles, including devotionals and other works by popular Christian pastors, theologians, and ...

To help Catholics live this special liturgical time and deepen their knowledge of the faith, here are answers to the most ...

Christians across the world observe a 40-day period called Lent. It represents the 40 days in the Bible that Jesus had spent ...