That's a supremely arrogant statement.
Back in the days when Catholics didn't eat meat on Friday, how would you have liked it to be a law that no one could buy meat on Friday?
After all, if you can't plan around not being able to buy meat on Friday, you surely have other, more serious issues, don't you?
If that was the tradition of the local community and had been on the books for years, instead of a new law urged by the Catholic church directly imposing its will on people, then I would have respected it or I would have moved somewhere else if it bothered me too much (which I doubt).
It's amusing to me how tradition is such a good justification for opposing things such as gay marriage or the removal of the ten commandments, but it is completely ignored when it comes to someone's can of beer.