Lent Archives

Catholic university students aid drought-stricken communities in Kenya
- Catholic News Service, Global Church
- April 16, 2017
Students at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa answered the call made by the Church and international organizations to help the communities in Kenya who risk starvation due to the drought that has devastated the region. Through concerts and donations, the students managed to raise money and collect food for the needy.
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Lent calls us to charity, not navel-gazing
- Commentary
- April 2, 2017
Almsgiving, fasting, and prayer are the concrete actions passed on to the believer in the struggle to follow the more excellent way of love taught and modeled by Jesus Christ. They are actions that call the believer out of his or her own thoughts and feelings and create a forum for grace to work and flourish within the soul.
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During Lent, we must examine our greed
- Commentary
- March 26, 2017
Lent is a good time to examine our consciences regarding greed in all its forms: In faith, love, forgiveness, time, abilities, and finances. Greed can distort reality, manipulate truth, coerce sinful actions, and compromise virtue and a desire to follow the ways of God.
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Pope Francis: When we want to give up, God helps us persevere

Pope Francis held his weekly general audience on Wednesday, focusing on the virtue of perseverance. He also spoke about the importance of protecting water, and urged people to take part in the “24 hours for the Lord” event taking place in parishes around the world on March 23-24.

Young people are dreamers like St. Joseph, pope says at morning Mass

Joseph “takes God’s promise and brings it forward in silence with strength,” the pope said during morning Mass at Domus Sanctae Marthae. “May he give young people — because he, too, was young — the ability to dream, to risk and to take on difficult tasks that they have seen in their dreams.”

Saints, American Christianity face off in March Madness

Lent Madness creator, Rev. Tim Schenck, thought of the idea when he realized that “basketball fans are having all the fun. We Christians who are participating in the season of Lent are kind of doomed to give stuff up and rub dirt in our faces and do acts of penitence,’”