Christians of many denominations abstain from meat for all or part of the liturgical season of Lent. For Roman Catholics, "all Fridays through the year and the time of Lent are penitential days and ...

For many people, the question of whether fish counts as meat seems straightforward — they're animals, so they're meat, right? But dig a little deeper, and it can get complex. For example, why is there ...

Catholics who are abstaining from meat on Fridays during Lent have a pass when it comes to one tasty reptile. Alligator is permissible to eat on Fridays during Lent, the archbishop of New Orleans told ...