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 ...

While many students celebrated Valentine’s Day on Feb. 14, the date also marked the start of Lent for Catholics, the 40-day religious observance during which they abstain from consuming meat other ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 for iftar ...

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 ...

It’s been about a year since I interviewed Mark Wahlberg — last Lent — when we discussed the beautiful life of Father Stuart Long as told on-screen in the flick Father Stu, which ended up being a ...

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 ...

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 ...