Meatless Fridays still? Yes or No

[Servus_Pio_XII]

I was under the impression that the practice of abstaining from meat on fridays was still officially in effect, but that since V II it was allowed that if you made a different act of sacrifice, eating meat on Friday was allowed.

About a month {possibly 2} ago on the “Catholic Answers Live” radio show… one of the Q&A open forum days a caller asked the question about this practice and the apologist of the day {one of the regulars…but I can’t remember which one} said that he has not been able to find anyplace where it stated it was still expected of us.

This morning I am watching EWTN and there is a little “commercial” with two guys going out for lunch and one orders a cheese burger, the other a fish sandwich and they have a discussion about this matter…the fish guy states the rule as I understood it to be…the other guy stated that he diden’t know, and changes his order to fish… and all is happy.

Now I’m confused… any help strightening me out would be great… I still practice meatless {or extra works of charity} fridays myself no matter what…but I have told other people that it was still expected and now I don’t know for sure… I want to be sure I am making correct statements. Thanks.

As far as I ascertained last week by myself, and this thread (co-incidence, isn’t it?), my Fridays are going to be meatless ones henceforth.