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.

An Oak Park church is standing by its message of diversity during Lent, "fasting from whiteness" despite receiving some significant backlash. 24/7 Live Chicago & Suburban Cook Co. North Suburbs ...

Lent is a season of spiritual reflection and sacrifice in the weeks leading up to Easter Sunday, ... Special church services, including Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday and Holy Week, ...

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.” ...

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.