Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lent, one of the five seasons on the Catholic liturgical calendar, begins this week and marks a 40‑day period of reflection and ...

April is here, spring has arrived and the Easter holidays — such as the end of the Lent and fish-fry Fridays, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter and Passover — are on coming. Unlike many other holidays, ...

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Mardi Gras festivities wrap up this week, ending carnival season. Ash Wednesday is soon, signaling the start of 40 days of reflection and repentance known as Lent. Unlike fixed holidays, the dates for ...

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 ...

Lent, one of the five seasons on the Catholic liturgical calendar, begins this week and marks a 40‑day period of reflection and repentance leading up to Easter. The season calls for Catholics to ...