(RNS) — With a Catholic clergy Lenten dance trend, a callout by pastor and Sen. Raphael Warnock and a prominent place in sermons by Black pastors, Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ is having a religious ...

I’m hardly Catholic anymore. Still, I wear the idea of my Catholicism as a romanticized badge of honor, taking pleasure in the idea that I once was a part of something truly controversial — and it ...

Lent is a 40-day period of reflection, prayer, and repentance observed by Catholics leading up to Easter. The season begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Thursday. Many people give up a luxury of ...

The Christian observance of Ash Wednesday Feb. 18 this year and will mark the season of Lent, leading up to Easter. Lent is one of five key periods on the Catholic liturgical calendar, along with ...