March 6, 2017
When
St. Patrick’s Day falls on a Friday in Lent, Catholics usually have to get a dispensation to eat the traditional corned beef and cabbage, because Fridays
in Lent are supposed to be meatless.
Usually,
bishops across the U.S. have issued a blanket OK for their dioceses, but this
year, here in St. Louis, Archbishop Carlson says that if you want a
dispensation, you have to ask for it. He will consider each request individually.
He
may be pretty busy shortly; or people may feel that, since it seems to be a
fairly flexible sin, they’ll just take their chances.
3 comments:
Where's he been? Apparently not keeping up with the news. The Pope already gave a dispensation for eating corned beef on St. Patty's Day!!!
Where did you see that? All I can find are dispensations for individual dioceses across the U. S. If it's true, then we should probably send out a Public Service Announcement.
Although to some Catholics not eating meat on Fridays during Lent ranks higher than not committing adultery, I wonder if the Archbishop has any clue about how few Catholics really give a [damn] about getting dispensations.
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