OK, Rapaire - but I still don't understand your comment "there are more important problems facing it than whether or not to celebrate St. Patrick's Day during Holy Week." What's your point? - that the church shouldn't be doing anything normal because they're facing a crisis? If I'm facing a crisis, should I just stay in bed in the morning? Am I not allowed to eat breakfast because my church has a child abuse crisis? Since it does have a child abuse crisis, does logic tell us the Catholic Church must now celebrate the Mass of St. Patrick instead of a feast of a higher level?

The Catholic Church has never celebrated St. Patrick's Day if it falls on Sunday, because Sunday trumps just about everything but Christmas. Now, as a nice gesture to St. Patrick fans, it moved the feast instead of cancelling it. What's so wrong about that, and why is it an issue?

-Joe-