In Germany and Austria, in collaboration with Protestants, the Catholic Church has promoted a “car fast.” How has the experience of Lent changed between the current generation and the previous ...

for Lent, which began on Ash Wednesday, March 5. The American association, which describes itself as “an uncompromising feminist voice” in the Catholic Church advocating for gender equality ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney plunged Canada into an election campaign on Sunday, as US President Donald Trump’s trade war sharpens the focus on fixing long-standing problems that have hindered the ...

In the Catholic faith, Fridays during Lent are "obligatory days of abstinence," according to the website of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. "Abstinence laws consider that meat ...

While the season of Lent is marked by fasting and abstinence, cooking for a hungry family in this season of prayer and penance “doesn’t mean boring or ‘fish all the time,’” a Catholic chef told OSV ...

This Jubilee year, Pope Francis has called on us to be ‘Pilgrims of Hope’. This is CAFOD’s mission - to bring your love for your neighbour to people suffering around the world, and to give them the ...

But the admonition that looms large in our liturgies during Lent is particularly pointed. It is also the most helpful. "Oh, that today you would hear his voice: do not harden your hearts" (Ps 95:8).

and our prayer challenge for Lent this year is shaping up to be the biggest one of all time," CEO Alex Jones told Fox News Digital. The Catholic prayer and meditation app links technology and ...

Luanda, 07 March, 2025 / 4:19 pm (ACI Africa). Catholic Bishops in Angola have marked the beginning of Lent with calls for conversion, a life of prayer, and the practice of forgiveness among pillars ...

NEW MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – It’s the first Friday of Lent and fish fries are in full swing around the Valley. For six months out of the year, the Social Hall at Saint Paul Catholic Church in ...

Most Catholics also give up something else they enjoy regularly, as part of the church's practice of abstaining from luxuries during Lent, according to the United States Conference of Catholic ...