Australian Bishops are pushing to re-establish the year-round Friday abstinence of meat! They have been 30 years without this obligation and are thinking that it was a big pastoral as well as spiritual mistake. We here in the US have not had mandatory Friday abstinence since 1966 - that's 48 years. (Our Sunday Visitor 3/30/2014 p3)
Wonder if returning to abstaining from meat every Friday of the year would make a difference in the faith lives of Catholics? Would it help us become more self-controlled? Would it open our eyes better to the hungry of the world?
Thoughts?
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