The season of Lent will begin on Ash Wednesday, March 5. Pope Francis presides over Ash Wednesday Mass at the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome on Feb. 14, 2024. (photo: Vatican Media / VM) Hannah ...

In his message for Lent 2023, Pope Francis encouraged Catholics to listen to what Jesus wants to tell them through the Scriptures and through others. Using the story of Jesus’ Transfiguration as a ...

Pope Francis has centered his Lenten message for 2024 on the Book of Exodus, choosing “Through the Desert God Leads Us to Freedom” as its main theme to encourage the faithful that the season is a ...

The Christian season of Lent - the 40-days of prayer, sacrifice and almsgiving in preparation for the joyous celebration of Easter - begins this Wednesday, Feb. 14. Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha has issued ...

A Feb. 14 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) includes a supposed message from Pope Francis to Catholics about their diet in the weeks leading up to Easter. “Eat whatever you want for Lent,” ...

Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.) Listen ROME — As the United States doubles down on ...

MID-50’S COMING UP. PATRICK: MILWAUKEE ARCHBISHOP JEROME LISTECKI HELD HIS TRADIOITNAL ASH WEDNESDAY MASS AT PIUS HIGH SCHOOL. 12 NEWS’ GERRON JORDAN BNGRIS US THE MESSAGE FROM THE ARCHBISPHO AS THE ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. In my faith tradition, we are deep in the middle of a sacred season called Lent. It’s a ...