SC - Re: Lenten restrictions

[Siegfried Heydrich]

    Hmmm . . . I have to wonder who's still doing hard time in purgatory
over a friday Big Mac, or how much a Papal Pardon is going for these days.
What with all the current controversy about the Clinton pardons, it looks
like there might be a lucrative little market, there . . .

    Sieggy

- ----- Original Message -----

> As a non-Catholic, this comment is based solely on a vague memory from a
> history book once read--
>
>     The Lenten laws were held to discriminate against northern countries.
> Butter (produced and used predominantly in the north) is limited/forbidden
in
> Lent, unless you pay for an indulgence to use it.  Olive oil (produced and
> used in the south) is permitted.  Hence, people in the south were less
> inconvenienced than people in the north, who were being either limited in
> their food or squeezed financially.  Since a certain amount of money taken
in
> by the northern Church ended up in Rome, this caused some hostility.
>
> Devra the Baker
>
> Devra Langsam