Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News
The faithful must set aside their egos and sense of superiority over others to make room for God and his tender mercy, Pope Francis said at a Lenten penance service.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, Local News, News
Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori has granted Catholics in the archdiocese a dispensation from abstinence from eating meat on March 17.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Lent
In the Land of Pleasant Living, we are blessed with many pleasant meatless options.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Lent, Question Corner
The time of Lent is not meant so much to provide us with a literal 40 forty days of penance, but rather to recall Jesus’ 40 days of fasting in the desert.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, World News
With St. Patrick’s Day falling on a Lenten Friday this year, many U.S. bishops have issued dispensations from abstinence on March 17, allowing the faithful to enjoy the American Irish tradition of eating corned beef (or ham) and cabbage in good conscience.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Lent, Question Corner
Our obligation to do some form of penance on Friday is identified in Canon 1250 in the Code of Canon Law, which tells us that “The penitential days and times in the universal church are every Friday of the whole year and the season of Lent.”
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Commentary, Lent, The Domestic Church
This Lent, as we walk toward Easter, we have a beautiful opportunity to ask ourselves what is missing in our spiritual life and spend time just being with Jesus.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis will open a Lenten prayer and penance initiative at a Rome parish March 17 rather than in St. Peter’s Basilica as in past years.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Social Justice
Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty talks with Kim Daniels, director of the Initiative about its 10th anniversary and how Catholics can help participate in a civil discussion with others – even if they disagree.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Lent, Open Window
Some Sundays getting to Mass is trickier than usual, and this weekend, my husband and ended up going to separate services since we were all on different schedules. I was running behind, and I headed to a parish we only visit occasionally.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, Marriage & Family Life, News, World News
Tom Lyman, director of Family Rosary, hopes that especially during Lent — which calls Catholics to commit more time to the Lord in prayer — families will pray the rosary together and take part in the ministry’s “At the Foot of the Cross” Lenten campaign.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Commentary, Lent, Unconditional
We are less than a week into Lent and the weariness is setting in for many of us who have chosen to make a Lenten sacrifice.
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