News
Catholics allowed to eat meat Friday in celebration of 'Feast of Annunciation'
The Catholic Diocese of Youngstown announced a dispensation for the Feast of the Annunciation which allows for Catholics to eat meat.
Catholics will have the rare chance to eat meat on a Friday during Lent tomorrow.
The Feast of the Annunciation will take place Friday with Pope Francis leading an Act of Consecration of Russia and Ukraine.
That announcement will take place in Rome at 5 p.m. which is 12 p.m. our time.
Bishop David Bonnar will join the act of consecration in union with the pope at a mass at St. Columba Cathedral in Youngstown at 12:10 p.m.
The Catholic Diocese of Youngstown announced a dispensation for the Feast of the Annunciation which allows for Catholics to eat meat.
The Solemnity of the Annunciation celebrates the announcement from the angel Gabriel to Mary that she would conceive and give birth to Jesus, according to the Catholic faith.