Springfield area Catholics may think twice about eating that corned beef on St. Patrick's Day. Andrew Hansen, a spokesman for the Springfield Diocese, said Bishop Thomas John Paprocki would not be ...

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The Archdioceses of Philadelphia is granting a dispensation to all Roman Catholics in the Archdioceses of Philadelphia from the obligation to abstain from meat on St. Patrick’s Day, Friday, March 17.

This week the archdiocese of Atlanta announced an end date to the general dispensation from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass. In a letter to parishioners in the archdiocese, Archbishop Hartmayer ...

Bishop Thomas J. Tobin will not issue a general dispensation for Rhode Island's Roman Catholics to eat corned beef on St. Patrick's Day. The holiday falls during the 40 days of Lent, when Catholics ...