I had expected Mass to bring with it a bursting of spirit. But this is Mass—nothing is going to jump out of a cake.

Loudly boasting or complaining about fasting during Lent and treating others unkindly is not what God wants, Pope Francis said.

“I’m sorry—I was wrong”—these can be hard words to say.

Christians are called to asceticism as a way of reaching out, in faith, toward a life to come.

The note that the psalmist sounds at the beginning of Lent is not sin, but forgiveness.

‘Lent may once again don its public mask’: America's editors from 1978 on an American Lent.