[ExI] Stranger Than Fiction: The Pope and the Fish Snacker

[Damien Broderick]

At 08:45 PM 5/7/2007 +0200, Amara wrote:

>Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) apparently sent an official, personal letter
>to the Vatican, asking Pope Benedict XVI to bless the company's upcoming,
>"Fish Snacker" sandwich so Catholics could eat it in good grace on Fridays
>during Lent.

Fishy as all this sounds, I feel a need to inform 
the theologically impaired that for four decades 
it hasn't been a mortal sin (worthy of eternal 
hellfire) or even a venial sin (a few thousand 
subjective years of ghastly torment in Purgatory) to eat meat on Friday.

"In November 1966, the... bishops´ conference´s 
"Complementary Norms on Penance and Abstinence" 
released American Catholics from a strict 
obligation under pain of sin to abstain from meat on Fridays outside of Lent."

Unless Benedict changed it back recently, in 
which case KFC could bring out the Rat Zinger Special.

Father Damien