A mother who has been part of a Catholic Relief Services’ program for family nutrition prepares beans for the family’s seven children at their home in Konjiko, Kenya, May 1, 2019. Lenten alms donated ...

The season of Lent officially kicked off last Wednesday, and while most of us are familiar with the common lent traditions, including no meat on Fridays, and maybe giving something up for the period.

What is almsgiving — and why does the Church teach that it is more about justice and right relationship than simply personal charity or philanthropy? As “Preach” continues its Lent 2026 series on the ...

Ash Wednesday always seems to show up unexpectedly. It’s on the calendar. We know when it is, but it still seems to come with an element of surprise. Perhaps it’s because of the various commitments ...

“[C]harity requires, first of all, an attitude of inner joy.” “Offering mercy cannot be a burden or a nuisance to get rid of quickly.” “[P]raise God through sacrifice and praise God with alms.” ...

Giving alms to the poor seems to be a key tenet of many faiths. Here’s glimpse at a few: “Almsgiving is prayer, and it involves fasting. Almsgiving is a form of prayer because it is ‘giving to God,’ ...

COMMENTARY: Conversion means resisting the temptation to ‘sing more loudly’ when confronted head-on with the troubling reality of evil in the world. A young girl prays at St. Andrew's Ukrainian ...

We are blessed once again to enter the Holy season of Lent, which unites us in a deeply sacrificial way with Jesus Christ and with one another as baptized children of God. Beginning with the ...

ROCKFORD — Boylan Catholic High School held its annual Lenten almsgiving project Feb. 22 through March 4. In a spare change collection, students brought in $8,232 to be split equally between the ...

It’s surprising that the rich man in Luke 16 knew that the beggar outside his gate was named Lazarus because, as Father Abraham implies in the parable, the rich man gave the poor man little during his ...

Charity is a book that gives away with one hand even while it takes back with the other. On the one hand, the book, written by a Scripture scholar who is the Hesburgh Professor of Catholic Theology at ...