Everyday Discipleship

Here are 12 new resources — online retreats, apps, podcasts, books and more — that promise to help Catholics grow in faith and draw closer to the Lord Jesus Christ ahead of Easter.

A new video series from the Knights of Columbus — the world’s largest Catholic fraternal service organization — delves into the dignity of work and its role in men’s lives and vocation.

Five saints, whose feasts typically appear on the liturgical calendar during Lent, can help us overcome some of the greatest obstacles that we face today.

Suffering is not something that God waves away or explains away, but something that he enters into and redeems.

Although she lost her family at a young age, St. Agnes Tsao Kou Ying carried her family’s Catholic faith with her as an orphan and received encouragement in her faith from those she stayed with and from the local bishop.

Catholic Relief Services invites Catholics across the United States to pray, fast and give alms through its annual Lenten program, CRS Rice Bowl, which started on Feb. 18, Ash Wednesday.

The distinction between personal penance for an individual member of the faithful and the communal nature of the Church’s required Lenten practices is explored.

St. Peter Damian emerged as a voice of truth and reform at a time when the Church was struggling with corruption and immorality. Called “the soul of the Gregorian reform” by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, his prolific writing and zealous call to popes, bishops and prelates to lead lives of purity, poverty and prayer were significant elements of Church reform in the 11th century.