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(TwinCities.com)   Archbishop says it's cool for Catholics to eat meat this Friday since it's St. Patrick's Day, swears they're not making the whole religion thing up as they go along   (twincities.com) divider line
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C18H27NO3
2023-03-17 10:08:19 PM  
Religion is so farking stupid.
 
Ragin' Asian [TotalFark]
2023-03-17 10:08:42 PM  
Is beaver still designated as fish by His Holiness?

/Make your jokes.
 
GratefullyAlive [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-03-17 10:10:34 PM  
Sub... you made me chortle, in a good way.
 
Oneiros [OhFark]
2023-03-17 10:10:57 PM  
And some consider beaver to qualify as fish, as they live in the water, and so are allowed during lent.

Others make the same argument for alligator
 
MillionDollarMo
2023-03-17 10:11:05 PM  
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And you can wackle all you wanna, while I hula all the day away.
Yes you can wackle all you wanna while I walk away, way, wayyy
 
Iggie
2023-03-17 10:13:38 PM  

Ragin' Asian: Is beaver still designated as fish by His Holiness?

/Make your jokes.


Beaver, nutria, muskrat, capybara, alligator, iguana...
 
olorin604
2023-03-17 10:13:55 PM  
Not eating meat might have counted as some sacrifice in the days before being able to swing by sams and get salmon fillets.

I make sure to try to eat dinner with my Catholic mom during lent. It's awesome salmon, shrimp boil, eggplant parmesan.
 
baronbloodbath [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-03-17 10:14:07 PM  
Everyone's Irish tonight. How about some nice mashed potatoes and a corned beef?
 
Monocultured
2023-03-17 10:15:02 PM  
Be nice, humans have an inherent need to believe in a grift bigger than themselves. 😘
 
DarnoKonrad
2023-03-17 10:24:01 PM  
I've got a box of Jesus' blood, and his  body with extra cheese and pepperoni
 
robodog
2023-03-17 10:26:07 PM  

baronbloodbath: Everyone's Irish tonight. How about some nice mashed potatoes and a corned beef?


I did braised cabbage, Irish soda bread, and corned beef grilled cheese sandwiches with Kerrygold extra sharp cheddar.

The cabbage was the most interesting, in a Dutch oven pour about 2Tb of oil, 1Tb butter, sweat one medium onion, add 2 finely diced carrots or 1/2 package shredded carrots, let sweat while cutting 1 medium green cabbage into 2" (on the thick side) wedges. Add caraway seeds, salt, mixed ground peppercorns, 1/4 cup Sherry vinegar and 2 cups water.

Cover and cook for 2 hours at 300 degrees, uncover and add 2Tb of stone ground mustard and stir to combine and then increase temp to 425, cook uncovered for 20 minutes and check, if reasonably dry and edges are browning then pull otherwise turn mixture over and let cook for another 10 minutes.
 
Wadded Beef [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-03-17 10:27:35 PM  

DarnoKonrad: I've got a box of Jesus' blood, and his  body with extra cheese and pepperoni


Oooh, is it Diet Jesus' Blood? I tell ya, one sip and it goes right to my hips.
 
BunchaRubes
2023-03-17 10:28:09 PM  
Here's the dispensation.  https://archspmmainsite.s3.amazonaws.com/News/2023/St+Patricks+Day+Dispensation+2023.pdf

Oh noes, the religious fark says it's okay to eat traditional St Pat's Day meals and encourages those that eat meat to do something charitable.  THE HORROR.

Sure, religion is a joke, but come on.  In order to eat their corned beef and cabbage tens of thousands of people will do something charitable.  10x that number won't but people like my mother, God rest her soul, would have made us kids do it and she wasn't alone.

/I'm glad mom was gone before we knew dad's father was Jewish lol, that would have been one interesting family discussion.
/raised cat-holic but Jewish enough to have lost most of my family in Ukraine back in the 1900s
 
Jadedgrl
2023-03-17 10:32:43 PM  
I went out to dinner tonight with some friends. One is uber Catholic and got a fish fry. I was impressed with his willpower cuz he loves corned beef. He heard of the allowance but decided to stick to Lent.

/former Catholic here
//had beef on weck
 
baronbloodbath [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-03-17 10:35:22 PM  

DarnoKonrad: I've got a box of Jesus' blood, and his  body with extra cheese and pepperoni


Praise Cheesus!
 
jso2897
2023-03-17 10:42:59 PM  

BunchaRubes: Here's the dispensation.  https://archspmmainsite.s3.amazonaws.com/News/2023/St+Patricks+Day+Dispensation+2023.pdf

Oh noes, the religious fark says it's okay to eat traditional St Pat's Day meals and encourages those that eat meat to do something charitable.  THE HORROR.

Sure, religion is a joke, but come on.  In order to eat their corned beef and cabbage tens of thousands of people will do something charitable.  10x that number won't but people like my mother, God rest her soul, would have made us kids do it and she wasn't alone.

/I'm glad mom was gone before we knew dad's father was Jewish lol, that would have been one interesting family discussion.
/raised cat-holic but Jewish enough to have lost most of my family in Ukraine back in the 1900s


So, an Irish Catholic boy marries a Jewish girl. They are extravagantly happy, and love each other very much.
But their first year together, one spring evening she cozies up next to her man and tries to start a little romance - only to be rebuffed.
He - "I can't, honey - it's Lent!"
Her - "To whom - and for how long!!?"
 
thealgorerhythm
2023-03-17 10:43:10 PM  

Ragin' Asian: Is beaver still designated as fish by His Holiness?

/Make your jokes.


Man they really need comprehensive sex education in parochial schools
 
maxandgrinch [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-03-17 10:47:59 PM  
Fark comments on New Jersey Friday meat decision and the Fark discussion when Chicago had the same challenge earlier this month
 
foo monkey
2023-03-17 10:50:57 PM  

Monocultured: Be nice, humans have an inherent need to believe in a grift bigger than themselves. 😘


Thanks O'bama!
 
BunchaRubes
2023-03-17 10:53:33 PM  

jso2897: BunchaRubes: Here's the dispensation.  https://archspmmainsite.s3.amazonaws.com/News/2023/St+Patricks+Day+Dispensation+2023.pdf

Oh noes, the religious fark says it's okay to eat traditional St Pat's Day meals and encourages those that eat meat to do something charitable.  THE HORROR.

Sure, religion is a joke, but come on.  In order to eat their corned beef and cabbage tens of thousands of people will do something charitable.  10x that number won't but people like my mother, God rest her soul, would have made us kids do it and she wasn't alone.

/I'm glad mom was gone before we knew dad's father was Jewish lol, that would have been one interesting family discussion.
/raised cat-holic but Jewish enough to have lost most of my family in Ukraine back in the 1900s

So, an Irish Catholic boy marries a Jewish girl. They are extravagantly happy, and love each other very much.
But their first year together, one spring evening she cozies up next to her man and tries to start a little romance - only to be rebuffed.
He - "I can't, honey - it's Lent!"
Her - "To whom - and for how long!!?"


My mother (cat-holic) told that joke lol :)   Thanks for the memory!
 
The Ice Cream Man
2023-03-17 10:54:24 PM  
Went to a St. Patrick's Day party on my lunch break. Had a choice between fish and chips, or corned beef and cabbage. Took the fish and chips, which were awesome. Corned beef tastes more like shoe leather. Y'all can have it.
 
Lish
2023-03-17 10:58:13 PM  

Ragin' Asian: Is beaver still designated as fish by His Holiness?

/Make your jokes.


If your beaver tastes like fish, see a gynecologist.
 
jso2897
2023-03-17 11:16:24 PM  
But the Bishop guy isn't wrong.
In fact, I can personally assure you that the creator of the universe does not care if you eat CBnC tonight.
I guarantee it.
 
C18H27NO3
2023-03-17 11:21:18 PM  
Dioceses stressed that Catholics who plan to eat meat should visit churches, engage in pious acts and perform other acts of penance to compensate for eating meat on Friday.

What happens if you eat meat and do none of those?
-Is it straight to hell with you when you pop off?
-Is it a little finger wag and a tsk tsk at the pearly gates?
-Does an angel spank you?
-Do you just do it anyway knowing that you can profess your 'sin' to some rando in a wooden box and be 'forgiven' by repeating some shiat you memorized in Sunday school?  Is that rando confessing the shiat he's done to anyone?

/Catholicism is ridiculous but there are many more religions out there that are more absurdly restricting on what you can and can't do BecAuSe jESuS !1!

Dear religion, you're holding the progress of humanity back.  Just.Go.Away.
 
Dreadskull
2023-03-17 11:44:06 PM  

BunchaRubes: Here's the dispensation.  https://archspmmainsite.s3.amazonaws.com/News/2023/St+Patricks+Day+Dispensation+2023.pdf

Oh noes, the religious fark says it's okay to eat traditional St Pat's Day meals and encourages those that eat meat to do something charitable.  THE HORROR.

Sure, religion is a joke, but come on.  In order to eat their corned beef and cabbage tens of thousands of people will do something charitable.  10x that number won't but people like my mother, God rest her soul, would have made us kids do it and she wasn't alone.

/I'm glad mom was gone before we knew dad's father was Jewish lol, that would have been one interesting family discussion.
/raised cat-holic but Jewish enough to have lost most of my family in Ukraine back in the 1900s


Yeah but, imagine how many fewer acts of charity would be necessary if Catholicism allowed for birth control.
 
winedrinkingman
2023-03-17 11:54:05 PM  

Oneiros: And some consider beaver to qualify as fish, as they live in the water, and so are allowed during lent.

Others make the same argument for alligator


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Prof. Frink [BareFark]
2023-03-18 12:05:05 AM  

baronbloodbath: DarnoKonrad: I've got a box of Jesus' blood, and his  body with extra cheese and pepperoni

Praise Cheesus!


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pdieten
2023-03-18 12:32:23 AM  

C18H27NO3: Dioceses stressed that Catholics who plan to eat meat should visit churches, engage in pious acts and perform other acts of penance to compensate for eating meat on Friday.

What happens if you eat meat and do none of those?
-Is it straight to hell with you when you pop off?
-Is it a little finger wag and a tsk tsk at the pearly gates?
-Does an angel spank you?
-Do you just do it anyway knowing that you can profess your 'sin' to some rando in a wooden box and be 'forgiven' by repeating some shiat you memorized in Sunday school?  Is that rando confessing the shiat he's done to anyone?

/Catholicism is ridiculous but there are many more religions out there that are more absurdly restricting on what you can and can't do BecAuSe jESuS !1!

Dear religion, you're holding the progress of humanity back.  Just.Go.Away.


Lent, for observant Catholics, is supposed to be a time of reflection and self-examination, to help you be a better person. The dietary restrictions are supposed to help this along; depriving oneself of meat should remind you that not everyone gets meat when they want it.

Of course, going out for an all you can eat fish fry doesn't exactly help this either, even if you are sticking to the letter of the law; the idea should be more like having a tuna salad sandwich for lunch. So if you get the dispensation, that just makes it that much more important to do something for the benefit of humanity.

Whether the Church actually does anything to help this process along is open to debate.
 
BurghDude
2023-03-18 1:05:27 AM  
"So whatdya give up for Lent?"

"Silly religious practices..."
 
foxy_canuck
2023-03-18 1:10:39 AM  
Didn't get enough hate the first time it was posted eh trollmitter?

It's a really simple explanation.  You can't fast during a feast.  In Ireland today is an official feast.  Since there is an extremely high concentration of Irish folks in Minneapolis the bishop declared it a feast.  Every bishop has local authority for stuff like that.

Done.  Move on.
 
aerojockey [TotalFark]
2023-03-18 1:11:12 AM  
Archbishop is right (as in, what he says is not in conflict with the rules of the Catholic Church) and it has nothing to do with St. Patrick.

It has been cool for Catholics to eat meat on Fridays, including during Lent, for decades.  (Maybe since Vatican II?  I don't know exactly when they got rid of it.)  Good Friday and Ash Wednesday are the only days you're not supposed to eat meat.  Here in America, maybe some other countries too, some Catholics still abstain on Fridays during Lent for tradition's sake but there's no rule to.
 
Floki [TotalFark]
2023-03-18 1:25:26 AM  
It's curious that we are talking about Catholic traditions of abstaining from meat during Lent and making an exception to that rule for St. Patrick's Day corned-beef-and-cabbage feasts.

The Filet-O-Fish (Filet O'Fish?) was invented by a McDonald's franchisee because burgers were not selling on Fridays during Lent.
 
scalpod
2023-03-18 1:44:33 AM  

C18H27NO3: Religion is so farking stupid.


Unless you're on the receiving end (of the benefits), in which case, carry on - FOREVER!
 
scalpod
2023-03-18 1:47:58 AM  

Ragin' Asian: Is beaver still designated as fish by His Holiness?

/Make your jokes.


Jokes? I'm too busy frying up this filet with the hairy ping-pong paddle sized tail.
 
Prof. Frink [BareFark]
2023-03-18 4:04:47 AM  

Iggie: Ragin' Asian: Is beaver still designated as fish by His Holiness?

/Make your jokes.

Beaver, nutria, muskrat, capybara, alligator, iguana...


Wow, some people have the funniest names for their private parts.
 
Gordon Bennett [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-03-18 4:32:33 AM  

Ragin' Asian: Is beaver still designated as fish by His Holiness?

/Make your jokes.


I can't. It's too easy.
 
phishrace
2023-03-18 4:40:02 AM  
Sweet. Can I get a pass on one of the ten commandments too? Some new neighbors moved in nextdoor and the guy's hot wife is giving me the eye. Be a pal, Archie.
 
Commander Lysdexic
2023-03-18 4:49:33 AM  

BunchaRubes: Here's the dispensation.  https://archspmmainsite.s3.amazonaws.com/News/2023/St+Patricks+Day+Dispensation+2023.pdf

Oh noes, the religious fark says it's okay to eat traditional St Pat's Day meals and encourages those that eat meat to do something charitable.  THE HORROR.

Sure, religion is a joke, but come on.  In order to eat their corned beef and cabbage tens of thousands of people will do something charitable.  10x that number won't but people like my mother, God rest her soul, would have made us kids do it and she wasn't alone.

/I'm glad mom was gone before we knew dad's father was Jewish lol, that would have been one interesting family discussion.
/raised cat-holic but Jewish enough to have lost most of my family in Ukraine back in the 1900s


So they can make a special exception for one of God's laws.
Unless it applies to gay people
Or trans people
Or abortions
Or sex outside of marriage
Or covering up priests molesting kids.

And we're not supposed to point out the hypocrisy because otherwise your delicate butt hairs will get twisted.
Got it.
 
Cormee
2023-03-18 6:23:28 AM  

Oneiros: And some consider beaver to qualify as fish, as they live in the water, and so are allowed during lent.

Others make the same argument for alligator


You're allowed eat meat during Lent, it's Friday is the problem - it's a day of penitence, so you're only supposed to eat fish.
 
Oneiros [OhFark]
2023-03-18 7:15:57 AM  

Cormee: Oneiros: And some consider beaver to qualify as fish, as they live in the water, and so are allowed during lent.

Others make the same argument for alligator

You're allowed eat meat during Lent, it's Friday is the problem - it's a day of penitence, so you're only supposed to eat fish.


Maybe your family did it that way...

My great grandmother was from Sicily, and EVERY Friday was meat free (Lent or not), and I think one other day of the week, and ALL of Lent.

/she insulted people by calling them Protestant
//she switched to 'heathen' after my mom's brother married a Protestant
///of course, my mom married my Protestant dad first, but she didn't like him
 
NathanAllen
2023-03-18 7:41:32 AM  
Our (lapsed beyond redemption) Diocese made this exception so of course we went out for fish fry.

I find being where religious people are is quite annoying.
 
Mr. Shabooboo
2023-03-18 8:18:35 AM  
I don't take orders on what I can and cannot eat and when from old men in funny hats..
 
I'm an excellent driver [OhFark]
2023-03-18 9:31:31 AM  
"Meat or fish" is an agonizing life choice that might affect my access to the afterlife, but sodomizing children?  It's a no-brainer.
 
The Irresponsible Captain [TotalFark]
2023-03-18 10:01:31 AM  
Eh, dispensations were baked in probably before the whole not eating "meat". It would be more surprising if they didn't give one.
Also the whole meat/fish thing was doesn't bother me much since a Tomato can be both a fruit and a vegetable depending on if it's a culinary classification or a botanical. We live in a world where words have different technical meanings on context every day.
 
pdieten
2023-03-18 11:58:34 AM  

Oneiros: Cormee: Oneiros: And some consider beaver to qualify as fish, as they live in the water, and so are allowed during lent.

Others make the same argument for alligator

You're allowed eat meat during Lent, it's Friday is the problem - it's a day of penitence, so you're only supposed to eat fish.

Maybe your family did it that way...

My great grandmother was from Sicily, and EVERY Friday was meat free (Lent or not), and I think one other day of the week, and ALL of Lent.


Wednesday. And yeah, that's how it used to be before Vatican II.
 
Cormee
6 days ago  

Oneiros: Cormee: Oneiros: And some consider beaver to qualify as fish, as they live in the water, and so are allowed during lent.

Others make the same argument for alligator

You're allowed eat meat during Lent, it's Friday is the problem - it's a day of penitence, so you're only supposed to eat fish.

Maybe your family did it that way...

My great grandmother was from Sicily, and EVERY Friday was meat free (Lent or not), and I think one other day of the week, and ALL of Lent.

/she insulted people by calling them Protestant
//she switched to 'heathen' after my mom's brother married a Protestant
///of course, my mom married my Protestant dad first, but she didn't like him


Yes, I said "Friday" I didn't say "every Friday during Lent" - it was a year-round thing, not just during Lent
 
Cormee
6 days ago  

Cormee: Oneiros: Cormee: Oneiros: And some consider beaver to qualify as fish, as they live in the water, and so are allowed during lent.

Others make the same argument for alligator

You're allowed eat meat during Lent, it's Friday is the problem - it's a day of penitence, so you're only supposed to eat fish.

Maybe your family did it that way...

My great grandmother was from Sicily, and EVERY Friday was meat free (Lent or not), and I think one other day of the week, and ALL of Lent.

/she insulted people by calling them Protestant
//she switched to 'heathen' after my mom's brother married a Protestant
///of course, my mom married my Protestant dad first, but she didn't like him

Yes, I said "Friday" I didn't say "every Friday during Lent" - it was a year-round thing, not just during Lent


Sorry, should have read your entire reply.

Nope, definitely wasn't the entirety of Lent in my house.
 
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