One of the readings prescribed for worship on Ash Wednesday says, “Return to the Lord, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love” ( Joel 2:13 ). Lent is ...

Lent says: love is not safe. But it is real. This does not mean accepting abuse or glorifying suffering—I need to be clear ...

Not only is Lent a time for people to reflect on and practice self-denial, it is also a time to reflect on and delight in the love of God for ...

It’s hard to fall when you’re always on your knees. Moral failing cannot gain a stronghold in a broken, praying heart that spends time in the Word and obedience to it (cf. James 1:22). Nine times out ...

During his first Ash Wednesday as pope, Leo framed Lent as a communal reckoning with personal and structural sin.

Lent offers an invitation to repentance. And repentance, the Rev. Bradley Mattson writes, "carries the sense of returning ...

The hope that the church can provide parents is not the promise that God will assuredly save their children, but that assuredly God is almighty, gracious, and abounding in steadfast love. Parents of ...

Why meat is not eaten during Lent, which days the abstinence applies and what is the religious significance within the Catholic tradition.

Beneath the Roman pines of the Aventine Hill, Pope Leo XIV led a solemn penitential procession Feb. 18 to Rome's oldest extant basilica, marking the first Ash Wednesday of his pontificate with a call ...

Millions of Christians around the world attended Mass on Ash Wednesday, the start of the Lenten season that prepares the ...