St. Patrick's Day Archives

Pittsburgh bishop gets hate mail over St. Pat’s meat ruling
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- May 21, 2017
Bishop David A. Zubik said he got hate mail over a decision to allow Catholics to eat meat on St. Patrick’s Day, a Friday during Lent, which he took as symptomatic of an excess of anger, feat and hatred in the world. Zubik also said that when Pope Francis meets President Donald Trump, he expects Francis to have the “little people” of the world on his mind.
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It’s time to end the game over St. Patrick’s Day and Lent
- Commentary
- March 17, 2017
Saint Patrick’s Day falls on a Friday of Lent this year, and bishops are divided on whether to allow people to have corned beef hash. There is a hodgepodge of contradictory rules, and people get upset because their bishop didn’t give the dispensation, or they fret no one really cares about Lent.
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In a changing city, look back at the Irish archbishops who built the Church in New York
- Church in the US, Interviews
- March 17, 2017
Ireland has played an important role in the life of the Catholic Church in America, and nowhere is this more apparent than in New York City, where every archbishop has been of Irish heritage. A new book – ‘Sons of St. Patrick: A History of the Archbishops of New York from Dagger John to Timmytown’ – looks at this history.
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Irish archbishop: St. Patrick was an ‘undocumented migrant’

As we celebrate the feast of St. Patrick, who called himself an ‘unlearned refugee,’ the leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland has called the faithful to remember that St. Patrick was first brought to Ireland as a slave by traffickers and that many today find themselves displaced and without status in our world.

Cardinal Dolan okay with gays in NYC St. Patrick’s Day parade

Life

September 3, 2014

After increasing criticism from politicians and the loss of two high-profile sponsors over its perennial decision to exclude gay groups, organizers of the nation’s largest St. Patrick’s Day parade have reversed course, and New York’s top Catholic is okay with that. Organizers of New York City’s Saint Patrick’s Day Parade