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Catholics are instructed to abstain from eating meat on Fridays during Lent, a practice called abstinence. "Meat" is defined ...

Wooster Square's Italian immigrants embraced the spirit of Lent by drawing on familiar practices, writes columnist.

Ash Wednesday is the Wednesday that always follows Mardi Gras. As you'll have read in our article on this feast, Mardi Gras ...

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On Fridays in March and April, St. Michael's Orthodox Church in Binghamton will be serving pirohis and other traditional ...

We're almost through the first eight weeks of the new year, and now our sights are turning to the spring months with Pancake Tuesday just around the corner, followed by Lent.