[Elsie]

Fasting from fish on Friday was, at one time, a required penitential practice in canon law --- not a preparation for anything.

Isn't that special!

Required and a LAW, now Optional and a SUGGESTION.

Quite convenient For a Church that has NEVER erred on... what is it again?

[SoothingDave]

Dogma is not discipline.

That is Catholic 101. Rules are rules. They are not unchangeable dogma.

Apples and oranges.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Oh, goodness, now you're mixing up canon law and infallibility. Canon law can change. It's human law --- like the rules of order of your own church, the written guidelines or procedures of your board of directors or board of deacons or elders or articles of incorporation or whatever it is.

These things are human rules --- not identical to Divine Law. Everybody knows that.

[Iscool]

Quite convenient For a Church that has NEVER erred on... what is it again?

And never changes...