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Lent

“Crucifixion,” by Craigie Aitchison, 1926-2009, Scottish. (Wikimedia Commons)

Lent on a canvas: Ponder these paintings from Ash Wednesday to Easter

Heather King|Mar 14, 2025|4 Min Read

“The Transfiguration,” artist unknown, Byzantine, Turkey, late 13th century.

Sunday Readings

Second Sunday of Lent: The glory in sight

Scott Hahn|Mar 14, 2025|2 Min Read

Archbishop Gomez anoints a young man with ashes at Ash Wednesday Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels March 5. (Victor Alemán)

Lent and our likeness to Jesus

Archbishop José H. Gomez|Mar 12, 2025|4 Min Read

“The Three Temptations of Christ (detail),” by Sandro Botticelli, Italian, between 1481 and 1482.

Sunday Readings

First Sunday of Lent: Forty days

Scott Hahn|Mar 7, 2025|2 Min Read

In this undated photo, Msgr. Robert Coll, creator of the Rice Bowl Lenten initiative, speaks with youth during a Catholic Relief Services mission to African nations. Msgr. Coll started Rice Bowl in 1975 as a means of countering hunger while deepening campaign participants' faith. (OSV News photo/courtesy Archdiocese of Philadelphia/Al and Camille St. Pierre)

Amid U.S. foreign aid freeze, CRS' Rice Bowl could be in 'its strongest moment,' says founder

Gina Christian|Mar 6, 2025|5 Min Read

A homeless man sits with his belongings outside a shopping center in Tucson, Ariz., Oct. 22, 2023. Lent marks a call to live out God's love by supporting those in desperate need across the globe, the chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace said in a statement released on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)

Bishop Zaidan: Lent a call to support poor, vulnerable as 'neighbors without borders'

Gina Christian|Mar 5, 2025|4 Min Read

Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary, sprinkles ashes on the had of another cardinal during Ash Wednesday Mass at the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome March 5, 2025. Pope Francis, who is hospitalized, asked Cardinal De Donatis to preside at the liturgy in his stead. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Pope text: Ash Wednesday teaches human fragility, Gospel hope

Cindy Wooden|Mar 5, 2025|4 Min Read

A woman marked with a cross on her forehead prays during Ash Wednesday Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of the Holy Family in Nairobi, Kenya, March 5, 2025. (OSV News photo/Thomas Mukoya, Reuters)

World

Lenten campaign focuses on persecuted Christians; priest's murder makes message more urgent

Junno Arocho Esteves|Mar 5, 2025|5 Min Read

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As Lent starts, the number 7 has greater significance

Scott Hahn|Mar 4, 2025|3 Min Read

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, gives the homily during Mass at the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome Feb. 6, 2025, as part of the Jubilee of the Armed Services, Police and Security Personnel. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

In Lenten reflection, bishops urge solidarity with 'martyred people of Ukraine'

OSV News|Mar 3, 2025|2 Min Read

Pope Francis blesses Mbengue Nyimbilo Crepin, a migrant from Cameroon whose wife and daughter died in July crossing the North African desert, during a meeting in the Domus Sanctae Marthae at the Vatican Nov. 17, 2023. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

This Lent, compare your life to a migrant's, pope says

Justin McLellan|Feb 25, 2025|2 Min Read

A young woman receives ashes during Ash Wednesday at Sacred Heart Church in Prescott, Ariz., Feb. 14, 2024. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)

US bishops' Lenten message to those grieving an abortion: Jesus' love is unconditional

OSV News|Feb 19, 2025|3 Min Read

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