The 40 days of this year's Lenten season started this past week, on Ash Wednesday, as faithful Christians all over the world began the spiritual commemoration of the 40 days that Jesus spent in the ...

Editor's Note: Ash Wednesday Mass excerpts were added at 12:20pm Eastern March 1. VATICAN CITY — On Ash Wednesday, Pope Francis said that while Lent is certainly a time of mortification, it’s also a ...

“Penance, penance, penance,” cried the angel, pointing to the earth with his right hand in the “Third Secret” of Fatima. This Lenten season is a perfect time to tie repentance into Fatima’s ...

But the call for penance is meant for all Catholics in this 40-day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving MANILA, Philippines – Power corrupts, so politicians need extra penance this Lent to avoid ...

I’m sure that all of us are aware that since last Wednesday, we have begun a new season in the church’s year. We had been celebrating what we call the ordinary Sundays of the year, and had completed ...

There’s a fatal temptation with Lent. Few people struggle to come up with a list of things to “give up” — and frequently those lists are quite long with items like sweets, carbs, TV shows, genres of ...

Lent is a season of prayer and penance. A traditional instinctive reaction to the coming of Lent is to ask: What penance will I do? What will I give up? More recently, we have been challenged to ask ...

When Stephen Adubato compares minimal Catholic and Orthodox abstinence to the obligatory daytime fasting of Muslim Ramadan in “What I Learned About Islam During Lent” (Houses of Worship, March 20), he ...