Eating meat on Fridays, mortal sin, etc

[GospelOfMatthew]

I think in US it’s, during Lent it’s no-meat Friday’s and the rest of the year it’s a sacrifice on Friday’s but doesn’t have to be meat, could be anything. So only obligated to do no-meat Friday’s during Lent I believe

 

[BananaManSuite]

Well, I do struggle with scruples, so I’m going to say it was probably not a mortal sin and receive communion this Sunday (I can’t confess here because I don’t think they offer English confessions).

I kept with the spirit of the fast once I realized I might be sinning because I only ate broth and noodles, and avoided the big chunks of meat. I probably consumed some minuscule particles of beef but, as I say, I think I was in keeping with the spirit of the fast while trying to be polite to my host.

 

[Don_Ruggero]

It is a handbook of moral theology to be used by Catholics, and it is has a Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur.

No.

It is the Magisterium in 2018 that is to be followed by Catholics.

The old Manuals are obsolete when they conflict with new provisions by the Church’s Magisterium. This is most especially true regarding moral theology, which has gone undergone renewal since the Second Vatican Council and the Saint John Paul II.

Saint Paul VI decreed in the Apostolic Constitution, Paenitemini, in 1966:

The prescriptions of ecclesiastical law regarding penitence are totally reorganized according to the following norms

And he further specified that where a law of fast and/or abstinence does apply, and that is determined between the Holy See and the competent Conference of Bishops, that only “Their substantial observance binds gravely.”

It is therefore wholly and completely wrong to dispense advice using norms and edicts of other eras that have long since been abrogated and suppressed.

The original poster committed absolutely no sin at all in what s/he described.

 

[Don_Ruggero]

Well, I do struggle with scruples, so I’m going to say it was probably not a mortal sin

Not only is there no mortal sin, there is no sin at all in this matter.

There are only two priests who have responded on this thread…myself and my American confrere, Father @edward_george1.

Please beware of bringing matters of conscience to an anonymous internet forum. It is not wise, and is to be completely not done by those who are given to scrupulousness.

You should also be warned against those who are integralists and who are not in submission to Pope Francis and to the Magisterium of today but who are instead attached to a past that is past and has been superseded.

 

[CilladeRoma]

@Don_Ruggero, so happy to see you back on the forum.
Thank you for setting the record straight for the OP.