Many Catholics give up beer as part of the penitential rigors of Lent. One diocese is brewing it as part of a Lenten tradition stretching back 400 years.

The beer collaboration is meant to help fund the diocese’s “Rectory, Set, Cook!” program to help feed homeless people. The diocese announced the launch of that program in 2021.

But the Roman Catholic priest recently won a national award for his brewing, not his preaching ... Some of the earliest evidence of beer in human society dates back to a 3,900-year-old ...