[SoothingDave]

So what’s a good Catholic Irishman or Irishman-for-a-day to do with St. Patrick’s Day?

What any good Catholic should do regardless the holiday -- give Jesus His due respect. Is it really so difficult to miss out on the drinking binge when the day falls during Holy Week? Such a sacrifice? I recall the Pope giving dispensation regarding meatless Fridays during Lent when St. Patrick's Day happened to fall on a Friday -- sheesh, people, you can't miss the corned beef ONE year?

Just for the record, the Catholic Church has officially moved St. Patrick's day to March 15 this year. You can't have a saint's feast day during Holy Week.

[Little Bill]

My God, my 87 year old Mother will be shocked, she didn't know the Pope was a Yankee oppressor, keeping the poor Irish down and making them work for dogs wages, depriving them of a holiday and an Identity.

Damn, I sound like my Communist Aunt before she became a Republican, Fear Of God I Suspect, she is old.