Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 14 marks the start of Lent, a 40-day religious celebration observed by many Christian denominations, including Catholic, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHICAGO — In many Catholic parishes, people are gathering for Friday night fish fries because they abstain from eating meat on ...

For the faithful looking to use apps to make this a fruitful, prayerful and holy Lent, leave it to Catholic experts’ Lenten app recommendations. “My first and foremost is the ‘CRS Rice Bowl App,’” ...

I’m hardly Catholic anymore. Still, I wear the idea of my Catholicism as a romanticized badge of honor, taking pleasure in the idea that I once was a part of something truly controversial — and it ...

For Roman Catholics and a number of other Christian denominations, it's the time of year to brainstorm what they're giving up for the next 40 days or so, whether that be chocolate, profanity, alcohol ...

When Lent arrives each year, I find myself in conversations about fasting with other Catholic women. We exchange plans for our seasonal food abstinence — small meals and no meat on Fridays, often ...

Every Lent, Catholics make their mark in the modern world by impacting restaurants across the country. Kelly’s Pub & Eatery in Scranton, Pennsylvania, run by the Kelly sisters (shown below), is a ...

Feb. 14 marks the start of Lent, a 40-day religious celebration observed by many Christian denominations, including Catholic, Anglican and Orthodox traditions. Every year, the celebration begins on ...