New Orleans - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 18 Feb 2013 04:18:30 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg New Orleans - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Alligator OK for meatless Fridays, says archbishop https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/02/19/alligator-ok-for-meatless-fridays-says-archbishop/ Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:30:46 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=39585 Alligator flesh is permissible to eat on meatless Fridays, the archbishop of New Orleans has assured a conscientious parishioner, because it is "considered in the fish family". The website of the national bishops' conference in the United States — where Catholics are required to abstain from meat on the Fridays of Lent — agrees. The Read more

Alligator OK for meatless Fridays, says archbishop... Read more]]> Alligator flesh is permissible to eat on meatless Fridays, the archbishop of New Orleans has assured a conscientious parishioner, because it is "considered in the fish family".

The website of the national bishops' conference in the United States — where Catholics are required to abstain from meat on the Fridays of Lent — agrees.

The website says: "Abstinence laws consider that meat comes only from animals such as chickens, cows, sheep or pigs — all of which live on land….

"Fish are a different category of animal. Salt and freshwater species of fish, amphibians, reptiles (cold-blooded animals) and shellfish are permitted."

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