Is it okay to be vegetarian and Catholic?

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Might be a silly question, but I didn’t know if that somehow went against our faith?
 
If it wasn’t, there are religious orders that ought to be in trouble for doing so!
 
Sure, just be aware that animal and vegtable protein are different and consult a nutritionist.
 
Other than some mystery with the eucharist, there is no need to eat flesh, tasty tasty flesh.
 
There is no issue with it. In fact, St John the Baptist was a vegetarian.
 
‘Now John wore a garment of camel’s hair, and a leather girdle around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.’ - Matt 3:4
 
A locust was a plant in biblical times, so there is some question as to if this referred to flora or fauna. You really had to be there…like the mustard seed parable
 
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Thelocust tree…not bugs! My priest pointed that out to me last year!
 
Despite what others claim, the text and language show it to be an insect. Also, john, being a jew, did not always live in the desert and most likely are plenty of passover lamb.
 
Also the Locust is one of (maybe the only?) insect permissible under kashrut. I’d say its possible it meant the bug.
 
Not only possible, but the Greek word akris is an insect not a tree.
 
We Byzantine Catholics probably spend at least 1/3-1/4 of the year as vegans due to our fasts. So I would say it’s fine.

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OP its fine to be a vegetarian and a Catholic, the two are not mutually exclusive. In Fact most to the world’s Catholics cannot afford much meat, if any. And in many periods of history, there was no meat to be had unless you were very privileged.
 
Well, to be Frank. I’m no biblical Greek expert but the word used in Greek in the bible translates as the insect. In fact I’m shocked people would buy the words in English at all.
 
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