Lent is a 40-day season that starts on Ash Wednesday and ends at sunset on Holy Thursday the week before Easter, although ...

Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, Christianity's 40-day season of prayer, fasting and giving in preparation for Jesus ...

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 ...

As Lent began on Ash Wednesday (March 5), Catholic women frustrated over being disenfranchised by the church despite promises of greater recognition are going on strike, withholding numerous services ...

The Lenten season is upon Catholics. To mark the beginning of the Lenten season, or the 40-day period prior to Easter, Catholic Cemeteries of Long Island held a Stations of the Cross prayer service in ...

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 ...

Lent should be less about “what we do” and more about walking with Christ in the desert, allowing our hearts and the hearts of our children and grandchildren to draw closer to Jesus through deeper ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- As the Lenten season begins, Catholic parishes across Louisville are hosting fish fries, bringing people together for food, fellowship and fundraising. Each parish puts its ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Catholic Choral Society will present its annual Lenten concert March 9 at 4 p.m. at St. Joseph Marello Church, 237 William St., Pittston. The concert will also feature the combined parish choirs ...