Lent offers a superb opportunity to honor Christ’s powerful message of compassion and love by adopting a meat-free diet for Lent an beyond. After all, it’s the diet mandated in Genesis 1:29 ...

We are now in the liturgical season of Lent. Lent involves readjusting our priorities and passions for something beyond the moment, greater than the immediate, and altering our mindset. Most ...

What I didn’t understand yet is that Lent concentrates guilt, then cathartically explodes it — it’s a kind of intermissionless Bergman matinee that leads you stumbling back across the ...

Feb. 25 marked the beginning of Lent, the 40-day period proceeding Easter when Catholics and other Christians would abstain from meat and dairy products in memory of the 40 days of fasting and ...

Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, the 40-day period before Easter when many Christians abstain from animal foods in remembrance of Jesus’ 40 days of fasting in the desert before launching his ...

Letter: Viewing Lent as an opportunity for change "After 40 days of self-giving will we be able to resist the tempter?" Fargo resident Margaret Bitz asks.

As many of us enter Lent in Black History Month with aspirations for drawing closer to the Lord in our faith walks through prayer, fasting and almsgiving, here are some ...

The 40 days of Lent preceding Easter has always been portrayed in the Christian tradition as a period for introspection and repentance. For American Christians who revere Donald Trump, nothing ...

We are being led out into the desert of 40 days of Lent. After 40 days of self-giving, will we be able to resist the tempter? Will we resist the temptation to turn hard cash into hunger for ...

“These are the times that try men’s souls”: A line from "The American Crisis" by Thomas Paine in 1776. I guess what goes around, comes around.

As Lent drew to a close, Catholics around the world turned their focus to Easter Sunday, the celebration of Christ’s resurrection. But what is the significance of Lent, and why does it matter ...