If you're going to find a book for Lent, you have less than a week left to find it! Here are a few suggestions: Through the Year with Pope Francis: Daily Reflections A collection of short excerpts ...

The Monday after Easter, Hannah and Jim threw a party. We’d been instructed to bring our contraband—whatever we gave up for Lent: Beer. Chocolate. Something caffeinated. A friend of Jim’s turned up ...

With Ash Wednesday looming, Catholics have some choices to make. What will I give up for Lent this year? Is this the year I say “it’s O.K. to cheat on Sundays”? Or is it the year I say it’s O.K. to ...

You’ve done the fasnachts, now it’s time for fish. Today, Ash Wednesday, begins Lent, a period of 40 days of penitence that many Christians observe in preparation for Easter. For Roman Catholics it ...

A trinity of books from a trio of well-known Catholic authors offer timely reading for Lent. All three books will propel readers in the right direction this Lent and beyond. Father Jeffrey Kirby, ...

I once had a spiritual director who told me that A Lent missed is a year lost from the spiritual life. Every year at this time, those words come winging back. And often my best Lenten devotion flows ...

Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. So, it’s time to ask that age-old question, “What are you giving up for Lent?” Lent is one of the oldest observances on the Christian calendar. According ...

THE Lent walk towards Easter, the highpoint of the Christian calendar, is best taken in the company of Scripture and the Gospel's eyewitness accounts of Jesus' ministry, crucifixion and resurrection.

Most people read a book to learn something. In the Benedictine tradition, “the reading of texts is intended to live out of them,” author Will Derkse writes in “A Blessed Life.” It is not cognitive but ...

A SERIES of readings are being broadcast on a community radio station throughout the spring. During the 40 days of lent, Radio Teesdale is broadcasting readings from Professor Tom Wright's book Lent ...

The week's best and worst from Jillian Melchior, Mene Ukueberuwa, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger Consider St. Lawrence, the third-century deacon who was grilled alive under order of Roman Emperor ...