The priest’s homily that day centered on how Lent was really a time for us to learn to love ourselves more. After that, I knew that this priest had nothing useful to teach any of us about the ...

"Our only reasonable motive for moral living and doing good things, including fasting during Lent, is to honor and draw near to God in love," she said. This love, and these actions, are done "in ...

Many Christian churches, or denominations, are in the season of Lent. But what is Lent anyway? Many of us are familiar with the “season” of Christmas, which is also a name of a season of the ...

There is a literary pattern found in the ancient stories of the Bible concerning the number 40. The most famous ones involve Moses leading Israel out of Egyptian slavery into freedom, the tribes ...

On the first day of Lent, the Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C., will host an exhibit on the Shroud of ...

Holy Saturday marks the end of the Lenten season on April 19, it is a time to mourn the death of Jesus and to prepare for his ...