Meat abstinence not required
PA Wellington Abstinence from meat on Friday will not be reintroduced as a penitential observance for New Zealand Catholics this year. Prominence to a possible return to abstinence from meat followed a recent report in the Catholic newspaper, the “Tablet.” But at their week-long conference in Wellington, the New Zealand Catholic Bishops have been merely looking at some form of community penance on Fridays in line with an emphasis on this in the Church's revised Code of Canon Law. “There will be no change for New Zealand Catholics at present,” said the Rev. Jim Lyons, director of Catholic Communications, yesterday. He said the lifting of the “no meat on Fridays” obligation by Pope Paul VI in 1966, was never meant to be a relaxation of the obliga-
tion for Catholics to do penance,- but it was a matter for each Catholic to decide what form penance should take.
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