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2020-03-27
Coronavirus changes Lent Bishops permit Catholics to eat meat on Fridays
In this article it shows how an observance is affected for Catholics. Bishops around the nation are given special permission for parishioners to eat meat on Fridays during Lent. Their reasoning is that people have giving up so much already, i.e. gatherings, mass and other activities. In addition to social distancing food stores have sparse if not empty shelves in terms what is available for the special dietary rules for Lent. They want to ease the difficulties in finding food as well as making sure they are not endangering their health in order to fulfill their requirements for Lent.