Meatless Fridays Beyond Lent Some Catholics Have No Beef With It The Tablet

WASHINGTON — The Catholic tradition of abstaining from meat on Fridays during Lent is a common practice that some say should continue all year. And if that happens, Catholics would be returning to an ancient tradition that, as many point out, never really went away but was only modified in different regions. According to canon law, all Catholics who are able should fast and abstain on Fridays throughout the year to commemorate Christ’s passion, except when a solemnity falls on that day. But another canon law also permits a national conference of bishops to “determine more precisely the observance of…