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Diocese promotes day of ‘unplugging’ from screens, devices for Lent

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Credit: Zyabich/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Mar 26, 2025 / 16:45 pm (CNA). The Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, is promoting a “Diocesan Day of Unplugging” — intentionally eliminating screen time or time spent consuming digital media — on March 28 as a Lenten fasting discipline to encourage Catholics to spend more time with God as opposed to spending time on their smart devices.Noting that fasting is a “practice of self-discipline with a penitential …

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Diocese promotes day of ‘unplugging’ from screens, devices for Lent

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South Korean Catholics pray outside Myeongdong Cathedral during a Mass by Pope Francis, in Seoul in this Aug 18, 2014 photo. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images) By UCA News reporter SOUTH KOREA – Most Catholics in South Korea fast and abstain from meat during the Fridays of Lent, but at least one-fourth don’t care about it, according to a recent survey. The survey among Catholics showed that 65 percent of Korean Catholics abstain from meat during the seve…

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Fourth Sunday of Lent: Lent should stir in us a desire to heal wounds, mend fences, bridge differences - The Dialog

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