Tag: lent

The day that begins the Lenten season is called Ash Wednesday. Here are four things to know about it.

The firing of a married gay Catholic-school teacher is the perfect opportunity to ask what - and who - we believe in.

It doesn't do any good for me to enter a conversation if I'm so tongue-tied that I cannot express, clearly and correctly, what I believe and why. That's just one more reason for Lent.

Fasting is not a way to seem more spiritual than others, it is to be done in a spirit of humility and joy. Lent/ fasting should not be a duty, but rather a celebration of God’s goodness and mercy to his children.

It's time I did some serious rethinking, which is the purpose of Lent.

Study finds many Americans are unimpressed with clergy.

In recent weeks, the U.S. meat industry has found itself wrestling with a culinary conundrum: Would American Roman Catholics be able to eat corned beef this St. Patrick's Day?