...a few other items of interest:
**Fr. Harrison and Mark Shea continue a healthy discussion on torture and the Catholic Church.
**The number of pro-lifers continues to grow and get younger.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
The Feast of St. Joseph is bigger than the feast of St. Patrick
**Don't tell any Irish that the Church makes a bigger deal of the feast of St. Joseph than of St. Patrick, but it is the truth. St. Patrick only gets a regular day in Lent, while St. Joseph (he was the foster-father of Jesus after all) gets a solemnity. This means that we don't have to abstain from meat on Friday. So, celebrate St. Patrick all you want, but don't forget the bigger day on Friday.
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Not to diss St. Patrick, but you're totally right Marcel. The Knights of Columbus' online magazine Fathers for Good just published an article I wrote about St. Joseph and my changing understanding of him from an atheist to Baptist to Catholic: http://fathersforgood.org/ffg/en/husband_wife/index.html
Thanks!
Is this for every diocese? Or is the obligation to abstain a diocesan decision?
It is universal.
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