Eat meat on Lent Friday? This St. Patrick's Day, Cardinal DiNardo says go for it.

Catholics may eat meat this Lenten Friday in good conscience, the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston announced.

St. Patrick’s Day falls on Lenten Friday this year, so Daniel Cardinal DiNardo is issuing dispensations from abstinence on March 17.

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The dispensations are for, “allowing the faithful to enjoy the Irish American tradition of eating corned beef (or ham) and cabbage in good conscience,” the church wrote in a release.

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