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 ...

Is there any question that almsgiving is the under-practiced, under-encouraged Lenten discipline when compared with prayer and fasting? (In this magazine’s 110-year-old archives, a search for the ...

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.

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 ...

The Archbishop of Mexico City, Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, said this week that “almsgiving helps us unmask the idolatry of money” and “reminds us that we are only administrators and not owners ...

Lent calls Catholics to prayer, fasting and almsgiving. With the start of Lent March 1, the U.S. Catholic Bishops have issued a calendar that provides several opportunities for prayer and almsgiving ...

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 ...