Lent

Development and Peace-Caritas Canada has officially launched its Share Lent 2026 campaign, giving faithful across the country another chance for prayer, education, donations and solidarity with the Global South.

“Forty days of pure bliss? How great!” This is a likely comment shared between a Lactobacillus acidophilus bacterium in your gut to another microbe.

Beneath the Roman pines of the Aventine Hill, Pope Leo XIV led a solemn penitential procession Feb. 18 to Rome's oldest extant basilica, marking the first Ash Wednesday of his pontificate.

On Ash Wednesday, Pope Leo XIV urged Catholics to seek "the gift of true conversion" this Lent, calling for an intense spirit of prayer and a conversion of heart as the 40-day penitential season begins.

The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops is launching 'Journey Through Lent,' a weekly video series of spiritual reflections on Sunday Mass readings, running from Ash Wednesday to Palm Sunday.

Each year, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops takes up its annual Collection for the Catholic Church in Central and Eastern Europe. Ahead of the collection OSV News spoke with Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk.

Our Lenten journey, from the desert to the joy of the Resurrection, is one we take together, as one Body in Christ, Cardinal Frank Leo tells Catholics in his 2026 Lenten message.

The ancient practice of fasting from food during Lent can free us from complacency and lead us to "hunger" for God, Pope Leo XIV said in his 2026 Lenten message.

On Ash Wednesday Feb. 18, our journey of life brings us to the beginning of Lent. As a hospital priest-chaplain, people often want to know what it is like to celebrate Lent with the sick in the hospital.

Calgary Catholics who attended a Lenten retreat on April 3 at Ascension Parish were invited to accept the Living Water.