Papal encyclicals are a powerful way the pope shapes global debates and articulates Church doctrine, but how should Catholics ...

Find today’s readings here. A few days ago I saw an Instagram reel featuring college students answering the seemingly simple question, “What are you giving up for Lent?” The answers were fairly ...

A Reflection for the Thursday of the Third Week of Lent If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts (Ps 95:7-8). Find today’s readings here. It is hard to make it too far in this world without ...

Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, has called on Nigerians to use Ramadan and the Lenten period as a time for repentance, moral reflection, and the restoration of family values.

We Christians began Lent this year with The Gospel of Mark and its poignant note about how Jesus began his public ministry. Going straight to the hardest of religious tasks, he spends 40 days in the ...

EWTN In the Slipper Chapel at the Basilica of Our Lady of Walsingham in Norfolk, England, priests call the faithful to prayer, conversion and reparation. (Re-airs 11:30 p.m. Wednesdays.) FOX, FOX ...

The universe is 13.8 billion years old. The Earth is 4.54 billion years old. Traditional evolutionary theory places human beings (homo sapiens) as having appeared on the scene 100,000 to 200,000 years ...

Why do so many Catholics “give things up” for Lent? Take a moment to reflect upon the goals that you might have set for yourself 12 days ago on Ash Wednesday. Maybe you decided to give something up to ...

Lent invites reflection. For 40 days, many Christians fast, pray, and examine their lives in preparation for Easter. But for Black Christians — whose faith traditions were shaped by enslavement, ...

Christians across New York City and around the world are observing Lent, a season of prayer, fasting and reflection leading up to Easter. Below is a guide to the season and how it is being marked ...

(AP) - This is the week of Ash Wednesday, a solemn day of fasting and reflection that signals the start of Lent, the most penitential season of the church calendar for Catholics and many other ...