Bishop Patrick Neary has granted Catholics in the diocese a dispensation from the obligation to abstain from meat on Friday, March 17.
Bishop grants dispensation for St. Patrick’s Day
St. Joseph’s Day can have its cake — and meat with it too
St. Joseph’s Day, on March 19, is on a Friday in Lent, a day Catholics are required to abstain from meat.
General dispensation from Sunday Mass in Detroit Archdiocese expires March 13
Citing the “essential and central nature of the eucharistic sacrifice” in the life of the Catholic Church, Detroit Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron Feb. 9 announced the general dispensation from Sunday Mass for Catholics in the Archdiocese of Detroit will expire March 13.
Bishop Kettler: Catholics dispensed from Sunday Mass obligation, events canceled/postponed
My staff and I are monitoring daily the recommendations offered by the Minnesota Department of Health and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and I have appointed an ad hoc committee to meet weekly to stay abreast of developments. The physical and spiritual well-being of the people of the diocese is our primary concern.
Father Kenneth Doyle: Left church, wants to return/Dispensation from abstinence
Question Corner
Father Kenneth Doyle answers questions from readers about returning to the church and fasting on St. Patrick’s Day.
No dispensation for this year’s Christmas Mass on Monday
The U.S. bishops said Catholics should attend separate Masses for both that Sunday obligation and Monday’s Christmas Mass obligation.