Lent is the time before Easter during which the faithful abstain and fast in remembrance of the ultimate sacrifice Jesus made on Calvary. It is a 40-day time of preparation before Easter, the ...

My friend’s church has initiated a novel Lenten practice, which is to write a letter every day in Lent and mail it: 40 letters in 40 days. The idea is to write something positive to someone ...

T-R PHOTOS BY LANA BRADSTREAM — Father Kyle Tietz, associate pastor of St. Francis, makes sure the microphone is working at his pulpit in the church. The Catholic church has a number of ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Lent starts on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, and continues for 40 days until Easter Sunday, April 20. During this time, Christians abstain from eating meat on Fridays ...

The artist is 87 now and under constant medical care. But he was determined to make it to Paris for the exhibition of his life. By Eleanor Stanford The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of ...

08 May 2025, 6:00 pm–7:00 pm Targeting works of art is an increasingly familiar form of protest that – by its very nature – aims to provoke strong emotional responses and widespread media attention.

GERHARD RICHTER, now (at 93) the grand old man of German art, put the problem succinctly in 1964: “Art is not a substitute religion. . . But the Church is no longer adequate as a means of offering ...

The ACT Government has commissioned artist Louise Skačej to create a public artwork honouring Stasia Dabrowski OAM, Canberra's 'Soup Kitchen Lady,' in recognition of her decades of selfless service to ...

The Lenten season leads us to the celebration of the Paschal Triduum, and the high point of the Triduum and the Church's entire liturgical year and life is the Great Vigil of Easter. Last week, we ...

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