Can Catholics Eat Meat This St. Patrick’s Day? It’s Complicated
Meat is an inherent part of manySt . Patrick ’s Daymenus . In the U.S. , it ’s oftencorned beef(with cabbage , not Zea mays ) , atraditionthat started with 19th - one C Irish immigrant . Back in Ireland , porc is often still the animate being protein of option come March 17 . This year , however , the holiday falls on a Friday during Lent — which poses a bit of a brain-teaser for practise Catholics , who abstain from eating core on those days ....