While eating the flesh of land animals and birds is forbidden on Fridays during Lent, the Church permits the faithful to eat fish, dairy and eggs (usccb.org).

Thus, in Lent, the Church calls every Christian to observe some kind of fasting.

Today is the start of the liturgical season of Lent, and it has traditionally been a period of particular spiritual ...

How the Muslim month of Ramadan transformed my understanding of fasting, prayer, and Lent. The sun was setting on a sweltering late Friday afternoon in Amman, Jordan. Sun filtered through the dust in ...

Fasting during Lent represents one of Christianity’s most profound spiritual disciplines, with roots extending deep into biblical traditions. Though not explicitly outlined in scripture, this practice ...

Pope Leo pope urged Catholics to embrace abstinence from food, as well as “refraining from words that offend and hurt our neighbor.” ...

The next time I’ll have the opportunity to write this column, it will be the Easter season. So, I’m giving myself permission to share an early encouragement for the season of Lent.

In stepping back from digital excess, we reclaim interior silence, deepen relationships, and rediscover God’s presence in ...

Ash Wednesday always seems to show up unexpectedly. It’s on the calendar. We know when it is, but it still seems to come with an element of surprise. Perhaps it’s because of the various commitments ...

I have been hungry lately, and I mean really hungry. I am not just talking about being triggered by something that looks delicious when I am already full, like salivating over the donuts on the ...

Mark Wahlberg and Jonathan Roumie hope you'll join them this Lent as they embark on a journey of prayer and fasting ahead of Easter Sunday.

Ash Wednesday is here and the Christian season of Lent begins for 2026. What we know on date, the 6-week period that leads up to Easter, fasting and more.