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Several years ago, I was making a 30-day Ignatian silent retreat when a few days into the retreat I got a hankering for ice cream. As I...

Like the apostles before us, the Church is called to be bold in this apostolic age. To do this, we must start thinking like the apostles...

(Photo: Catholic News Agency) On Ash Wednesday, parishes around the nation will be holding second collections to provide aid and support...

(Photo: Benjamin Davies / Unsplash) At 1:30 in the morning on April 4, 2013, Christopher Thomas Knight was arrested for burglary in a...

Pope Francis during his general audience in Paul VI Hall on January 26, 2022. (Photo by Daniel Ibanez/CNA) More than a penitential season...

Lent is here…again. Though it seems like Lent was just yesterday (or never really went away at all), here we are, 40 days before Easter...

(Photo: Pexels) STARTING ASH WEDNESDAY: Join Archbishop Aquila in praying a 54-day Rosary novena for a renewal of mission in the...

(Photo courtesy of the Augustine Institute) Lent isn’t just a time to give something up; it’s a time to tap into life’s greatest...

(Photo: Ruben Hutabarat / Unsplash) Well, I don’t think it would be an overstatement to say that Lent has been a lot Lent-ier than usual...

St. Joseph with Christ, Basilica of St. John and Paul Father Roger J. Landry is the national chaplain for Catholic Voices USA and a...

We have officially entered the season of Lent, which can only mean one thing: For the next 40 days, willful suffering, deprivation and...

One interesting thing about liturgical seasons in the Church is that despite the fact they happen at roughly the same time every year,...

We are about to begin the first Lent of a new decade. And there is nothing like being in Rome for to prepare one for this period of...

DENVER, CO - APRIL 3: Cross bearer Matthew Gear carries the cross along Colfax Avenue near Sherman Street during a Way of the Cross March...

(Photo: Pixabay) Lent is full of traditions that remind us of our mortality and give us hope for our salvation. Dive deeper into the...

DENVER, CO - OCTOBER 13: The Consecration of the Archdiocese of Denver to the Immaculate Heart of Mary at the Cathedral Basilica of the...

(Photo: Pexels) If there’s one thing we think we know about Lent, it’s that we’re supposed to “give something up.” We’re not sure why,...

He was a man of silence and action. As we continue to walk through Lent, St. Joseph, the man who is revered as patron of the universal...

(Photo: Unsplash For Lent 2016, I adopted a new Forty Days discipline in addition to intensified prayer, daily almsgiving, and letting my...

The best Lent of my life involved getting up every day at 5:30 a.m., hiking for miles through ankle-twisting, cobblestoned city streets,...