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Catholics may eat any type of food, except on Ash Wednesday and on Fridays during Lent when they are not allowed to eat meat (excluding fish and seafood, which is not considered to be meat).

AnswerThe Old Testament, which faithful Jews kept, forbids certain foods as unclean or abominable:

Pork is unclean --"And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you." (Leviticus 11:7)

Shellfish is an abomination --"And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you . . . ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcasses in abomination." (Leviticus 11:10-11)

Rabbit is also unclean --"And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. And the hare . . . he is unclean unto you." (Leviticus 11:5-6) Notice that the biblical writers erroneously thought rabbits chew the cud.

How about Locusts. --Since ham and lobster are verboten to bible believers, how about some barbecued grasshopper or steamed locust for dinner? "Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind." (Leviticus 11:22) "And the same John [the Baptist] had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey." (Matthew 3:4)

But the New Testament opens all foods to Christians:

"Thus he [Jesus] declared all foods clean." Mark 7:19

The Acts of the Apostles and the letter of Saint Paul to the Galatians particularly describe the resolution of this dispute in the early Church. Saint Peter particularly grasped this revelation on with considerable difficulty. Nevertheless, nowadays Catholics may eat any type of food.

Canon law, in keeping with Church tradition, prescribes fasting on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. In the Latin rite, it also mandates abstinence (from carnis--the Latin word for the flesh of birds and mammals) on Ash Wednesday and all Fridays except solemnities (Easter Friday, Sacred Heart, and, for example, Christmas Day or Immaculate Conception).

The local bishop may require additional days of fasting or abstinence. The bishops also may allow individual Catholics to perform a different act of penitence or charity on Fridays outside Lent as a substitute for abstinence from flesh of birds and mammals; the bishops in the United States of America have exercised this option. Moreover, the local bishop may refine the definition of

carnis; some allow (or historically allowed) the flesh of whales and other marine mammals, puffins and other seabirds, and even aquatic rodents; others may disallow, for example, snake or alligator.

Eastern Catholics observe a stricter schedule of fasting and abstinence.

Answer

A Catholic can eat most any food. Jesus said that what you eat does not make you impure only one's thoughts and fixations do that.

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