[Gamecock]

“Fridays During Lent — In the United States, the tradition of abstaining from meat on each Friday during Lent is maintained.

Is that only in the US? I kinda thought it was a world-wide thing.

[Campion]

Is that only in the US? I kinda thought it was a world-wide thing.

Some bishops of third-world countries have pointed out that it was a strange sort of "penance" to impose on their people, who rarely had meat to eat anyway, and rarely had enough of anything else.