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Bishop Urges Italians to Give Up Text-Messaging for Lent

Christians and Catholics traditionally observe Lent, the approximately 40-day period between Ash Wednesday and Easter, by praying frequently and fasting from certain types of food. Abstaining from food -- and vices such as drinking and smoking -- is intended to help the believer prepare for the Easter celebration of Christ's resurrection, and to also create empathy for Jesus's time spent ...