What about the American bishops?
Hrmph!
In the United States, people are supposed to either abstain from meat or do some other form of penance.
How does that "some other form of penance" work?
American Catholics will pay about as much attention to abstaining from meat as they do current guidance.
I don’t expect much from the American bishops, after all they gave us the NAB translation whose copyright they own.
We also had the worst translation of the mass which was finally re-done a few years ago. (I believe 2011)
That was the gift of the American bishops as well. Hopefully the generation coming up will re-do the actions of the former generation of bishops in America.