St. Patrick’s Day Parade
Savannah plans a supersized 200th anniversary celebration of its beloved St. Patrick’s Day parade
By Russ Bynum — March 14, 2024
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Over the past two centuries, St. Patrick's Day in Savannah has morphed into perhaps the South's biggest street party between Mardi Gras in New Orleans and Florida's raucous spring break.
Debate over gays in St. Patrick’s parades roils Irish on big day
By David Gibson — March 16, 2015
NEW YORK (RNS) The New York parade marches down Fifth Avenue on Tuesday (March 17), the saint’s feast day, and Cardinal Timothy Dolan is facing renewed calls from conservative Catholics to step down as grand marshal.
Catholic school to sit out St. Pat’s parade because gays will be marching
By Reuters — March 2, 2015
BOSTON (Reuters) "We can't associate with that," Brother Thomas Dalton, principal of Immaculate Heart of Mary School. "It would appear we were condoning it."
Catholic League drops out of St. Patrick’s Day parade over row about gays
By David Gibson — September 12, 2014
NEW YORK (RNS) The Catholic League will not march in the St. Patrick’s Day parade down Fifth Avenue, and Cardinal Timothy Dolan is still taking most of the heat.
Are Catholic conservatives turning on Cardinal Timothy Dolan?
By David Gibson — September 5, 2014
NEW YORK (RNS) Cardinal Timothy Dolan's positive reaction to this week's decision by organizers of New York's annual St. Patrick's Day parade to allow gay groups to march initially drew charitable responses. Then some Catholics turned.
Gay groups in St. Patrick’s parade all right with N.Y. Cardinal Dolan
By David Gibson — September 3, 2014
NEW YORK (RNS) After years of resistance, a group of gays and lesbians will be allowed to march in the St. Patrick's Day parade for the first time under their own banner, and Cardinal Timothy Dolan said he's OK with that.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio won’t march in St. Patrick’s Day parade
By Lauren Markoe — February 4, 2014
(RNS) New York Mayor Bill de Blasio won't march down Fifth Avenue in the city's famed St. Patrick's Day parade because he opposes organizers' ban on marchers holding gay pride signs.
‘Ask an Atheist’ event replaces participation in St. Patrick’s Day parade
By Sally Morrow — March 18, 2013
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (RNS) Among the constant flow of people wearing green, toting beers and milling around the bars in Kansas City’s Westport neighborhood on Sunday (March 17), a man in a red plaid kilt held a sign that said, “Kiss me – I’m a Left-handed, Red-headed, Kilt-wearing Irish Atheist Stepchild!” The Kansas City Atheist […]
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