The Catholic tradition of abstaining from meat on Fridays during Lent is a common practice that some say should continue all year.
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Meatless Fridays: Of Faith and Fish
by Maureen Pratt FOR CATHOLICS AND other Christians who observe meatless Fridays, fish figure prominently, and this makes me (pardon the pun) happy as a clam. But I understand that some people are not as enthusiastic as I am about fish. The smell might be off-putting, the texture “slimy.”