Catholics: If you ate meat on Fridays as a child(when it was necessary not to do so)?

I understand what you're asking...

When it was forbidden to eat meat every Friday.. It was a discipline imposed under penalty of sin by the Church.

Any acts of commitment of that Sin unrepented and Unconfessed, still remained Sin after the discipline was changed .

The Church has the authority to impose a penalty of sin Or lift a penalty of sin. (BIND and LOOSE)

Also

going one step further..

By the same athority... The Church can lift the penalty of, {forgive in Christ's name}, Mortal Sin in the Sacrament of Penance /Confession..in a person with an "Imperfect Contrition".

Growing up as a Catholic too, I was given fish to eat on most Fridays, and especially in Lent.

However, I do not recall it being a sin, to eat meat on a Friday.

Now I am born Again-makes no difference now.

Interesting question. I'm old enough to remember this no meat on Friday bullsh!t. According to the very ugly nuns it was a mortal sin to eat meat on Friday, and in my god-soaked family we always obeyed that rule. The alternative was eternal torture in a magical hell because that's what was meant by "mortal sin".

When the pope said "Never mind, you can eat anything you want on Friday" I was about 13 years old and I wondered why they had this rule in the first place. It was the first step in my gradual realization that the Catholic Death Cult (and all other ridiculous cults) was pure bullsh!t.

I don't know the answer to your question. Since the rule was thrown out does it matter if Catholics ignored the rule? Who cares?

Except during Lent, that went away during Vatican II. I was a child at the time, but my parents were very observant of no meat on Friday's. As mentioned, just a venial sin.

Actually in most nations (including the U.S.), Roman Catholics are still required to not eat red meat or poultry on Fridays.

http://www.catholic-pages.com/life/fridaymeat.asp

http://catholicism.about.com/od/catholicliving/f/F...

It was not a mortal sin, and venial sins can be forgiven by a simple prayer or by receiving the Eucharist, so it is a non-issue.

That changed in the 1960's.

I was raised in a catholic family and even went to catholic school and was never told it was a sin to eat meat on fridays. :O

I've been told the fishing industry was suffering over seas. Italy. The pope did this to help them out.

You have to hit the details button to write more. I liked the old system better as well.