Catholics kneel during Ash Wednesday Mass at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016. (Credit: AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell.) Listen Get ready! This coming week is Ash ...

Ash Wednesday always seems to show up unexpectedly. It’s on the calendar. We know when it is, but it still seems to come with an element of surprise. Perhaps it’s because of the various commitments ...

COMMENTARY: Conversion means resisting the temptation to ‘sing more loudly’ when confronted head-on with the troubling reality of evil in the world. A young girl prays at St. Andrew's Ukrainian ...

While the almsgiving, fasting and prayer that are common to multiple faith traditions can be celebrated in every season of the year, it has always been a healthy custom for Christians around the world ...

During Lent this year, believers should put in the effort to improve their prayer lives, Christian filmmaker Chris Worthington told Fox News Digital. Based in Orlando, Florida, Worthington is the ...

This week on Register Radio, the focus is on the spiritual journey of Lent. Dan Burke will speak with Dr. Anthony Lilles about prayer as they discuss Dr. Lilles’ new book Hidden Mountain, Secret ...

We are blessed once again to enter the Holy season of Lent, which unites us in a deeply sacrificial way with Jesus Christ and with one another as baptized children of God. Beginning with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lent, one of the five seasons on the Catholic liturgical calendar, begins this week and marks a 40‑day period of reflection and ...

Prayer, fasting and almsgiving. These are the themes of the holy season of Lent, the 40 days in which Christians prepare for the great feast of Easter, the holiest day of the church calendar year. But ...

As Christians pray, fast and give alms during Lent, they also should consider giving a smile and offering a kind word to people feeling alone or frightened because of the coronavirus pandemic, Pope ...

Giving alms to the poor seems to be a key tenet of many faiths. Here’s glimpse at a few: “Almsgiving is prayer, and it involves fasting. Almsgiving is a form of prayer because it is ‘giving to God,’ ...