Wednesday is the first day of Lent, and many Christians will observe the day by going to Mass to be blessed with ashes. Lent is observed by Catholics, Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians, Anglicans ...

From being named after Saint Anthony of Padua to being home to five internationally recognized missions, San Antonio has a history rooted in faith. The Archdiocese of San Antonio serves roughly 1.1 ...

CHICAGO — In many Catholic parishes, people are gathering for Friday night fish fries because they abstain from eating meat on Fridays during Lent. In Muslim homes, people are gathering every evening ...

St. John Paul II, Pope of the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005, once said “the Church must breathe with her two lungs.” Those two lungs, the Eastern Catholic Church and the Roman ...

A plate of goat cheese bruschetta prepared by certified executive chef Jim Churches, president of the American Culinary Federation's Michigan Chefs de Cuisine Association and a member of St. Patrick ...

The traditional Lenten practices of intensified prayer, fasting, and almsgiving are spiritual disciplines to be followed along the six-week pilgrimage from Ash Wednesday to the Easter Triduum. As I ...

The Lenten season is upon Catholics. To mark the beginning of the Lenten season, or the 40-day period prior to Easter, Catholic Cemeteries of Long Island held a Stations of the Cross prayer service in ...

You probably studied in a Christian mission-run school, or had a Christian friend or relative. Christianity is India's third-largest religion with 28 million adherents, who make up 2.3 per cent of the ...