Every year, when Lent begins, the same question comes back and intrigues a lot of people: why don’t we eat meat during Lent?

The Roman Catholic Church requires its followers to practice abstinence from meat and fasting on Ash Wednesday.

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 ...

Lent Fish Fries are a beloved tradition in many Catholic communities, especially in the United States. The practice of eating fish on Fridays during Lent dates back to the early days of Christianity, ...

Middletown Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church, located at 280 N. Race St., hosts fish fry dinners with ...

"Jesus is upheld as the quintessential animal sacrifice. That becomes part of the entire early Christian allegory around his death," she said. The film goes on to discredit the many stories of Jesus ...