In his message to the world’s faithful for Lent of 2007, Pope Benedict XVI emphasized that God’s act of suffering and death on the Cross was not only an act of love directed at mankind, but an ...

Junior Aedan Heffernan (pictured) led a gathering honoring the Stations of the Cross for Lent across the Albertus Magnus campus Monday in New Haven. The annual Catholic ritual is a 14-step ...

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 ...

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,” ...

The Vatican released Pope Francis’ Lenten message Thursday in which the pope recommended that Lent 2022 can be a time to put down the smartphone and encounter those in need face to face. “Let us not ...

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 ...

The Vatican released Pope Francis’ Lenten message Thursday. In it, the Pope recommended that Lent 2022 can be a time to put down the smartphone and encounter those in need face to face. “Let us not ...

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 ...

In Western churches, Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, six and a half weeks before Easter, and provides for a 40-day fast in imitation of Jesus Christ’s fasting in the wilderness before he began his ...

ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis called for a fair distribution of wealth and equal access to education and health care on Tuesday in a Lenten message where he urged people to reach out and touch "the ...