In Vigil, George Saunders asks if it is ethical to invite absolution to those responsible for the planet’s decline.

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 ...

Forgiveness Sunday, occurring just before Great Lent in the Greek Orthodox Church, emphasizes themes of repentance and ...

Left unchecked, with no repentance, our many collective individual sins metastasize into what Saint Pope John Paul II called the “structures of sin” – those larger elements within our cultures, ...

This Ash Wednesday many Christians will arrive at work with a black cross smudged on their foreheads; countless more will ...

The Lenten period for penance started this week with Ash Wednesday and Catholic priests are happily bracing for long lines outside the confessional ...

But while the TheoBros have set their sights on empathy, Piper has been silently stewing about another deep concern — the sin of lament.

How rare it is to find adults who repent — individuals, businesses and institutions that admit they have done wrong,” Pope Leo said in his homily in the Basilica of Santa Sabina.

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent in Western Christianity. Here's what ash means on Ash Wednesday as well as the history of how this tradition came to be.

Ash Wednesday is a day of reflection for Christians, marking the beginning of the Lenten season. Churches across the Upstate ...

"How rare it is to find adults who repent -- individuals, businesses and institutions that admit they have done wrong," Pope Leo said.

Pope Leo inaugurated the Lenten season Wednesday lamenting the various “structures of sin” that exist in the world and encouraging believers to live embrace the period as a time of conversion.