Well many people believe that the Church did away with eating meat on Friday. The truth is they did not but that they did leave it up to the Bishops of a country to make a decision regarding this. There must be some penance on Friday, this ne er changed. The U.S. Bishops determined one could give up meat or something else or do some other act of penance in lieu of the meat. Most people just started eating meat and ignored the need to give up something else or do penance.
That said, it is Lent. On Ash Wednesday and all Fridays during Lent, Catholics are forbidden to eat meat and the more liberal penance does not apply. If they are under a certain age or over a certain age (sorry don't have the exact ages at hand) and are not otherwise ill, they must also fast on those days during Lent.
Vatican II blew this all up, it used to be every FRIDAY....
what a joke the last generation of RCC leadership has been...and now JP II considered for sainthood? Give me a break.
On Ash Wednesday and all Fridays during Lent, Catholics are forbidden to eat meat
Is this backed up by Scripture?