Pope Leo XIV urges Catholics to listen more closely to God and others — and to 'disarm' their language by fasting from words ...

Spiritual formation is the work involved in applying religious beliefs to our lives. Spiritual principles have the ability to ...

Ash Wednesday is a day away and begins the Christian season of Lent 2026. The 6-week period that leads up to Easter. What we ...

OR Mt 5:20-22a, 27-28, 33-34a, 37 In a sense, it's all been leading to this. During these weeks of Ordinary Time, the Gospel ...

Some important facts to understand the meaning and importance of Lent, Ash Wednesday and Easter.

Ahead of the start of Lent, Pope Leo XIV invites Catholics to open ourselves to listening, fasting, and community, urging us ...

St. John Paul II, Pope of the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005, once said “the Church must breathe with her ...

The ancient practice of fasting from food during Lent can free us from complacency and lead us to “hunger” for God, Pope Leo XIV said in his 2026 Lenten message.

CatholicPhilly presents a weekly roundup of international news from Vatican News, the official news portal of the Holy See. The following report on the week of Feb. 8, 2026 links to stories on ...

Our God thirsts for real presence, for contentious or questioning prayer, for genuine interaction that opens us.

Lent is a 40-day season that starts on Ash Wednesday and ends at sunset on Holy Thursday the week before Easter, although ...

It's easy to take things that we're used to doing for granted. Lent's just one of those Catholic customs that come around every year as the liturgical year moves through its cycles. But if ...