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CHICAGO — Chicago’s Irish Catholics will be walking on thin, green ice if they want to eat corned beef on St. Patrick’s Day.

The Mass will be followed later in the week by a series of six additional memorial masses held by auxiliary bishops at other churches of the Archdiocese of Chicago.

The new accusation comes less than two years after the popular priest was cleared by the Archdiocese of Chicago of separate accusations.

The Archdiocese of Chicago has asked three retired priests to stay out of ministry while it investigates allegations of sexual abuse of minors from nearly 50 years ago, according to a news release from the archdiocese.

The Archdiocese of Chicago received two allegations Friday against the Rev. David Ryan, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich said in a statement.

The plan is to remove an exact marble replica of Michelangelo’s Pieta, which depicts the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Mary after the crucifixion, from St. Adalbert Church, 1650 W. 17th St. and move it to St. Paul’s Parish, 2127 W. 22nd Place, the Archdiocese of…

A woman said she was abused in the 1980s at a Catholic school on the South Side, St. Cyril Catholic School in Woodlawn, which since has closed.

Jennifer Blackman, a member of the Coalition to Save the Shrine, said many questions have gone unanswered and the Archdiocese of Chicago has not provided a statement after suspending mass Monday.

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