And first, with regard to the custom of fasting, it may be worth while to point out that no Christian man — be he Roman Catholic or Anglican — not even the most austere stickler for the most strict observance of every appointed period of humiliation and abstinence, can for a moment hop...
Role of the ritual observance of dietary rules specifically fasting and abstinence as the defining marks of Catholicism; Focus on the Friday abstinence in the Catholic identity which resulted in the transcendence of class and educational barriers; Theological and practical shift represented by the ...