re: Baton Rouge-area Catholics can eat meat Friday for St. Patrick's Day, bishop says

I would just like to point out there are no Catholics in here going off on all the Anti-Catholic vitriol.

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shite like this is what make organized religion a fricking joke

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I'm kind of lost on this one too. So, what other Religious Rules can they just change in Catholicism?

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All of them. They have been evolving rules in order to keep their flock since it's inception.

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in remembrance of the Friday on which Christ was crucified.

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He didn't die on a Friday, he said 3 days and nights in the ground

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Oh thank God he gave Catholics permission. Otherwise they woulda all gone straight to hell. But it's ok now, he said they could do it. Therefore, no repercussion right?

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Just BS. I'm Catholic and yes, I do give up meat on Fridays thru lent. Come this Friday, I will still give up meat.

Bow down to your Vatican overlords. Unless something is inconvenient for them. The terms will be changed but, continue bowing.

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Catholics aren't Christians

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I've seen this posted a few times here. Is there any logic to this or is it just meant to piss people off?

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I'm kind of lost on this one too.

So, what other Religious Rules can they just change in Catholicism?

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Abstaining from meat isn't a matter of faith. It's a discipline, not a matter of doctrine, and can be dispensed. Priestly celibacy is another example; converted Episcopal priests and Eastern rite Catholic priests can be married prior to ordination. Mass can be celebrated in the Tridentine or Novus Ordo form. The St. Patrick's dispensation is a long standing tradition.

Matters of doctrine are immutable. They can't say Jesus didn't really rise from the dead, for example, or that He was the natural son of Joseph and Mary.