Advent's Lent-like waiting period is exactly why churches do not immediately whip out Christmas trees at the end of Ordinary ...

Lent is a time of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. We, as Catholics, are called to walk through the desert with Christ for 40 days and 40 nights. The season of Lent is one of the holiest times of the ...

On Friday, March 14, 2025, St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church in East Drumore Township hosted its first fish fry of this year’s Lenten season. The church, at 955 Robert Fulton Highway (Route 222), ...

Our Lady of Joy Catholic Church in Plum opened its Lenten fish fry season on Ash Wednesday. It is takeout only due to the covid pandemic. Volunteers serve patrons in a drive-thru format with a group ...

The “Lenten Pasta Dinner” series at St. Celestine Church in Elmwood Park, part of St. Mother Theodore Guerin Parish, returned this year for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Meatless Wednesdays and Fridays? No butter, cheese or eggs during Lent? More than a hundred fast or abstinence days per year? Maybe being a Catholic today isn’t so tough after all ... The Church has ...