Aside from cutting meals and staying away from certain food, Catholics who practice penance in the form of abstinence can also give up other things for Lent. In his message for this year’s Lent ...

Observed by Catholics for centuries, Lent marks the 40 days leading up to Easter, often involving prayer, fasting and ...

Why? Because every overly devout parent (of which I had two) demands to know what the child is planning to give up for Lent. The most pious of children take this quite seriously and announce that ...

Fourth-year mathematics and philosophy major Grant DeRaedt said for Lent, he and a friend walk barefoot on the lakeshore and ...

During Lent, all Catholics are called to spiritual growth through deeper experiences of prayer, fasting and almsgiving.

Each year as the Lenten season approaches, many Christians spend time thinking about what they’re not going to do — eat sugar ...