St Patrick's 'day' moved to 15th March for 2008

[muriel_volestrangler]

Worldwide celebrations for St Patrick's Day could face disruption after the Catholic Church decided to move the Irish patron saint's feast day.

Bishops were left with sore heads after they discovered the traditional March 17th festivities will clash next year with the second day of Holy Week.

Under the Church's rules, the General Norms for the Liturgical Year and Calendar, the saint's feast day does not rank as high as the Monday before Easter and has to be moved.

After much deliberation, Rome gave Irish authorities the green light to shift the official religious celebrations two days back to March 15th, which falls on a Saturday.

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0718/breaking85.htm

So, does the Catholic church still get to say when St. Patrick's Day is? Or does the green beer brigade now 'own' the date?

[AllegroRondo]

1. solution - celebrate both days!

:woohoo:

[In_The_Wind]

2. Oh great ~ they'll be celebrating the Ides of March.

[Connonym]

3. Oy, just oy

I'm a recovering catholic and shit like this is the reason why. The local churches would give special permission to eat corned beef on a Friday during lent if it happened to be St. Patrick's day. Too bad they can't be so forgiving on all their rules -- like the ones about only boys being priests or against people being gay even when GOD MADE THEM THAT WAY.