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 ...

The Sacramento Catholic Diocese held a morning outdoor service Wednesday on the south steps of the state Capitol for Ash Wednesday. The day before marked Fat Tuesday, a long-standing tradition of the ...

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 ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Some Catholic bishops in the United States are easing the obligations of faithful for the last remaining ...

Every Lent, Catholics make their mark in the modern world by impacting restaurants across the country. Kelly’s Pub & Eatery in Scranton, Pennsylvania, run by the Kelly sisters (shown below), is a ...

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 ...

When Lent arrives each year, I find myself in conversations about fasting with other Catholic women. We exchange plans for our seasonal food abstinence — small meals and no meat on Fridays, often ...

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 ...

No booze. No meat. No french fries. For millions of Christians around the world, 40 days of “fasting” kicked off on Ash Wednesday, marking the beginning of Lent. In the United States, even as younger ...

The 40 days of Lent started on Ash Wednesday, March 2, and with that comes Friday fish fries. Typically, Catholics avoid meats on Fridays during the six-and-a-half weeks of Lent, and the Knights of ...