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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Saying that many Holland residents are unfamiliar with Lent and its practices of self-denial, some Dutch Catholics are calling the Lenten fast the “Christian Ramadan,” the Daily Telegraph reports.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Irish Catholics will be able to enjoy a traditional corned beef dinner this St. Patrick's Day, even though the holiday falls on a Friday during Lent. The Most Rev. Mitchell T. Rozanski, bishop of the ...