Pancakes, Fish Frys—and Beavers? Why Catholics Abstain From Meat
In this Lenten period of self-denial and bearing one’s cross, the cold ground and bare trees of the late winter season echo Holy Mother Church’s requests to embrace hunger and do without some of the more sumptuous bounties that bedeck our dinner plates—namely, to do without meat on certain days. But why do …
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