A butter lamb has taken center stage on my family’s Easter table for as long as I can remember. Each year at Easter, my ...

This weekend marks the beginning of Holy Week, a week of great significance to Christians, commemorating the final days of ...

The senior center at Pastor Donté Hickman's church was set ablaze after Freddie Gray’s death, but he says the young man's ...

Holy Spirit Verona will once again partner with the American National Catholic Church of St. Francis, Glen Ridge as well as ...

Originally established in 1587, the Baroque church was rebuilt between 1770 and ... coast guards and medical personnel on full alert during the Lenten season.

One of the finest religious poems of the 20th century is “Lenten Illuminations” by Siegfried Sassoon, written shortly after the poet’s reception into the Church in 1957. In the poem ...

Erie Catholics gather and welcome friends to sit down for Lenten dinners. When and where to find dinners for the last week of ...

The streets in this quiet town in Camarines Sur are transformed into a sacred path during the Holy Week as the Passion of ...

In church, a number of practices also change every Lenten season. Because this period in the liturgical calendar focuses on penance and reflection, elements of the mass like celebratory and ...

For 40 days every spring, Christians observe the season of repentance and fasting known as Lent. In New Orleans, the change from Mardi Gras to Lent is striking.

It is also common practice in the Catholic church to abstain from eating meat on Fridays during the Lenten season and turn to fish-fry Fridays. Palm Sunday always falls on the Sunday before Easter ...