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2021 CNA lineup of fast food fish sandwiches    Credit: Christine Rousselle/CNA

Review: 2021 Lenten fish sandwiches

Feb 19, 2021

By Christine Rousselle

CNA's 2021 review of Lenten fast food fish sandwich offerings.     Read more

Family saying grace at table.

Dioceses permit meat on Lent Fridays due to coronavirus

Mar 27, 2020

Several dioceses across the United States have dispensed Catholics from the canonical requirement to abstain from meat on Fridays during... Read more

Archbishop Gregory Aymond's letter in response to a request to eat alligator on a Friday in Lent.

Alligator OK to eat on Lenten Fridays, archbishop clarifies

Feb 15, 2013

By Carl Bunderson

Alligator is permissible to eat on Fridays of Lent, the archbishop of New Orleans assured a conscientious parishioner, and his... Read more