[Sneer]

Please point me to the "new code of canon law". I am aware of only these and they are not just recommendations
# 1249 to 1253.

"All Christ's faithful are obliged by divine law, each in his or her own way, to do penance. However, so that all may be joined together in a certain common practice of penance, days of penance are prescribed. On these days the faithful are in a special manner to devote themselves to prayer, to engage in works of piety and charity, and to deny themselves, by fulfilling their obligations more faithfully and especially by observing the fast and abstinence which the following canons prescribe." [Canon Law # 1249]

"The days and times of penance for the universal Church are each Friday of the whole year and the season of Lent." [Canon Law # 1250]

"Abstinence from meat, or from some other food as determined by the Episcopal Conference, is to be observed on all Fridays, unless a solemnity should fall on a Friday. Abstinence and fasting are to be observed on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday." [Canon Law # 1251]

"The law of abstinence binds those who have completed their fourteenth year. The law of fasting binds those who have attained their majority, until the beginning of their sixtieth year. Pastors of souls and parents are to ensure that even those who by reason of their age are not bound by the law of fasting and abstinence, are taught the true meaning of penance." [Canon Law # 1252]

"The Episcopal Conference can determine more particular ways in which fasting and abstinence are to be observed. In place of abstinence or fasting it can substitute, in whole or in part, other forms of penance, especially works of charity and exercises of piety." [Canon Law # 1253]

[sinkspur]

The new code was issued in 1983.

There's nothing about "mortal sin" in the canons you posted.

[Maximilian]

Abstinence from meat, or from some other food as determined by the Episcopal Conference, is to be observed on all Fridays

The Episcopal Conference can determine more particular ways in which fasting and abstinence are to be observed.

The code of canon law left it up to the bishops' conference of each country. The US bishops decided to require NO fasting or abstinence on any days of the year except Ash Wednesday and Fridays of Lent. In the United States, as determined by the USCCB, in accord with the leeway in the canon law, there is no penance that is REQUIRED on any Friday not in Lent.