Diocese of Bishop Michael G. Duca has granted a dispensation from obligation to attend Mass amid an ongoing immigration ...

Bishop Michael Duca granted a dispensation from Sunday Mass for immigrants fearing deportation in the Diocese of Baton Rouge, ...

Amid growing fears in the New Orleans community and surrounding areas from a large immigration crackdown operation, the Archbishop of New Orleans is exempting certain people within the Catholic ...

ATLANTA — This week the archdiocese of Atlanta announced an end date to the general dispensation from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass. In a letter to parishioners in the archdiocese, Archbishop ...

St. Patrick's Day this year coincides with Lenten Friday, when Catholics traditionally abstain from meat. But after several dioceses across the United States granted dispensations, some Catholics will ...