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Wednesday, February 12, 2020

AS WEDNESDAY AND THE BEGINNING OF LENT ARE TWO WEEKS AWAY!

What a major, major conundrum we Catholics face today, especially we priests. Can we eat the Impossible Whopper on Ash Wednesday and all the Fridays of Lent, especially on Good Friday?


Catholics know that on Ash Wednesday and all Fridays of Lent we must abstain from meat, poultry, pork and other meat products. We can eat fish of all kinds, alligator, other reptiles, frogs and other amphibians. Someone said we can eat nutria too, but not sure of that. But....can we eat the impossible whopper which is not beef at all? It seems we would be following the letter of the law but certainly not its spirit.

But let's talk about Nutria. I was told by a seminarian for our diocese, and thus I am most skeptical, that a Louisiana bishop approved eating of this aquatic rat/rodent on Ash Wednesday and Fridays of Lent since these are delicacies in Louisiana which have webbed feet and live in the water! What say you? If so, can we eat a duck-billed platypus? Can we eat ducks? Can we eat penguins?


2 comments:

Fr. Allan J. McDonald said...

A certain Savannah seminarian sent me these two links to support his spirit of Vstican II relaxation of the Lenten law of abstinence in the flabby post Vatican II Church.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/blog/the-giant-venezuelan-rodent-that-tastes-like-fish-and-other-obscure-lenten-delicacies

And

https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/02/the-ten-most-wonderful-and-strange-foods-for-lent

John Nolan said...

Aquatic animals can be eaten, including otters.