The Church gives us the holy season of Lent each year to help us to step back, to slow down and take stock of our lives.

The trick to a meaningful Lent, wise folks will tell you, is to choose something small and nurturing to bring into your life.

As Shakespeare affirms in his multifarious works and manifold ways, we do indeed “owe” our lives. And this stark reality has ...

We all need to repent for complicity in licensing Donald Trump to unleash an agenda of retribution and meanness throughout ...

Over a billion Catholics worldwide and a million in the Archdiocese of Atlanta ushered in the start of Lent while Pope Francis remained hospitalized in a precarious condition.

Ash Wednesday is a day away and begins the Christian season of Lent. The 6-week period that leads up to Easter. What we know ...

Ash Wednesday is officially here! The Christian season of Lent — the 6-week period that leads up to Easter — starts. What we ...

Lent is a period of prayer ... "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." Therefore, ashes represent ...

Easter Sunday moves around the calendar. Here's why this culmination of Holy Week can take place between March 22 and April 25.

Clergy applying the ashes traditionally quote Genesis: “You are dust and to dust you shall return ... begin penance by giving up something for Lent. Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, is the ...

Lent 2025: Why people walk around with a smudged cross of ashes on their foreheads on Lent and why do Christians give things up for this festival before Easter? Why do Christians mark themselves ...