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ROME — Every morning at 7 a.m. throughout the season of Lent, the seminarians and priests of the Pontifical North American College (NAC) in Rome organize a Mass in English at each day’s ...
During Lenten season, 85-year-old Thurmon Stovall and his wife, Irish, 81, carry out what has become an annual family tradition: They volunteer at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church in Northwest ...
At Lent, Catholics Reflect On Faith As Sex Abuse Scandal Shakes The Church On the first Sunday of Lent, NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Sister Joan Chittister about the holiday's meaning amid the ...
The Lent we strive to keep, 40 days or 12, wants this church of ours to be as faithful and as free as Jesus was when he answered the question about putting the woman to death.
The pastor of a Chicago area church that called on parishioners to “fast” from “whiteness” during the Lenten season is defending the controversial move amid public outcry.
A church in suburban Chicago said it is “fasting from whiteness” during Lent, the 40-day period preceding Easter – by abstaining from performing hymns composed or written by white musicians.
On Sunday, March 9, Wesley United Methodist Church, 14 N. May St. in Aurora, will open the Lenten sermon series “A Praying Church: Becoming a People of Prayer.” ...
St. Benedict Church in Blue Island is one of many churches offering carryout and curbside service this year in place of the traditional sit-down Friday fish fry dinner during Lent.