I remember giving up chocolates (which I still love) for Lent when I was a child, and making other sacrifices like fasting and rising early for daily Mass. The nuns explained that these practices made ...

Mardi Gras gets its name from the consumption of fat (in French, “gras”) on the Tuesday (in French, “Mardi”) before Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent, during which time Christians were supposed to fast ...

One of the traditional ways of thinking about sin is that sin is a set of spiritual laws or a cosmic list of rules that have to be obeyed to appease God and keep God happy. However Christians believe ...