The economic and social upheaval caused by COVID-19 is prompting bishops to relax a Lenten rule.
“The new Corona Virus Disease or COVID-19 has placed most, if not all, of our faithful in a situation where obtaining food, including meal alternatives from meat, the rising cost of fish and other forms of seafood, and even the challenge of being able to obtain groceries without endangering their health, make it clearly difficult for them to fulfill this practice.”
He encouraged Catholics who take advantage of this dispensation to substitute their traditional fast from meat with other forms of penance, particularly acts of charity. Rev. Peter J. Uglietto, auxiliary bishop of Boston, said Catholics are called at this time to “make the best of what we have at hand or is available for purchase.”wrote in a letter announcing a dispensation for his archdiocese Thursday.Most bishops are still upholding the requirement for Catholics ages 18 to 59 to fast on Good Friday, the day that marks Jesus’s death. Generally, theExemptions from this particular church rule aren’t unheard of in U.S. Catholic dioceses.
It was around Ash Wednesday on Feb. 26, the first day of Lent, that American Catholics started hearing aboutand other parts of the world that had been affected earlier by the skyrocketing coronavirus cases. This year’s Lent has proved to be like none other in recent history. Earlier this month, bishops around the country
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