Can Catholics eat bacon ?

[Boaz]

Why is this in the" chapel" in the first place? Why not the PIT or theological discussions?

That said, I have a boss that's a fine Christian man that won't touch pork on religious grounds, and he's certainly not Catholic. Personally, I think it's a rightly dividing issue, and you can eat what ever you want by God.

How's this? I have a Granddaughter that just about won't eat any kind of meat unless is highly processed. The subject of bacon came up and she went on and on about how much she liked bacon. I exclaimed, "I thought you don't like meat?", she said bacon isn't really meat! Figure that one out?

Why is it 'dividing' ? We as Christians cannot discuss different traditions and practices openly though we attend different churches ? Could you explain how it is 'dividing' ?

[RogerDat]

Detroit was one of the diocese that wanted a finding that muskrat was not meat. Fish was expensive, muskrat was plentiful in the marshes along the river and trapped commercially. Making muskrat a cheaper form of non-meat than fish for lent. Which was greatly appreciated by the working class Catholic immigrants in Detroit and Michigan. Being a French town originally it had a Catholic base which helped draw in the Irish, and later Polish immigration that further cemented its large Catholic population.

Some really interesting and historical Catholic churches in Detroit and the surrounding area.

[farmerjim]

Yes, although not on Fridays during Lent when all "meat" is forbidden. The definition of meat is as odd as a congressional district map. The Belgians or Dutch convinced a pope to rule that muskrat and beaver did not count as meat since they came from the water like fish, for example.

In Louisiana Alligator is not meat.

[Boaz]

LOL , the topic of this thread was meant to be humorous , I am aware that Catholics love bacon as much as we Baptists do . Our advantage is we can have it 365 days a year ! However I did learn something ...didn't know beaver and muskrat were on the menu with fish during times of abstinence , that's interesting !

[Boaz]

As a child I was glad there were so many Catholic kids in my grade school . There were several grade schools in town but mine and one other were the only schools that got fish on Friday ....Catholics were beneficial !

[Thundarstick]

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I didn't say it was dividing, just not fit for the chapel, IMHO.

[Boaz]

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I didn't say it was dividing, just not fit for the chapel, IMHO.

I'm honestly not understanding why it's ..not fit ? I can't relate this thread to theology , it's simply sharing and fellowship to me .

Yesterday two good friends of mine drove over 500 miles round trip just to take me to lunch . One is a Methodist and one is a Southern Baptist and I'm an Independent Baptist . They go to an interdenominational pray study together in their home town .
The Southern Baptist friend gave prayer at the restaurant before we ate . They had liver and onions and I had the fried cod . Great guys , had a great time...they made my day !

[anothernewb]

As a catholic, yes Bacon is regularly on the menu.

I can further say, that as a function of the crusades - bacon likely played an important part of that particular history. Both as a food staple - and for other intimidation purposes.

[trapper9260]

Years ago when I was in church at the time and it was during lent and the priest said that for how high price fish is out here and too many dose not have the money to buy it. You can eat meat. Also been eating bacon and other foods.So do what need to be done for how things are for you.The animals and wildlife was not put on here for just there looks, but for there use one way or the other.

[Thundarstick]

I'm honestly not understanding why it's ..not fit ? I can't relate this thread to theology , it's simply sharing and fellowship to me .

I guess my understanding of what the chapel is here for is a misunderstanding then!

How about starting these threads in the chapel!

Can a Baptist preacher be divorced?
Can a Methodist go to a fish fry on Monday at the local bar?
Does your preacher/ priest have to wear a certain outfit?
It's it ok to wear your work cloths to church?
It's it a sin to let or services out early to beat the Baptist to the buffet?
If you wore a kilt to services what would happen?

And on and on and on. My final post here.

[Ickisrulz]

I'm honestly not understanding why it's ..not fit ? I can't relate this thread to theology , it's simply sharing and fellowship to me .

I guess my understanding of what the chapel is here for is a misunderstanding then!

How about starting these threads in the chapel!

Can a Baptist preacher be divorced?
Can a Methodist go to a fish fry on Monday at the local bar?
Does your preacher/ priest have to wear a certain outfit?
It's it ok to wear your work cloths to church?
It's it a sin to let or services out early to beat the Baptist to the buffet?
If you wore a kilt to services what would happen?

And on and on and on. My final post here.

The rules are fluid in this section and change depending on who makes the post.

As pointed out in another post: "Please pray for me" is not a theological discussion. "Can a Christian engage in a certain practice?" will involve a theological discussion.

[Boaz]

I'm honestly not understanding why it's ..not fit ? I can't relate this thread to theology , it's simply sharing and fellowship to me .

I guess my understanding of what the chapel is here for is a misunderstanding then!

How about starting these threads in the chapel!

Can a Baptist preacher be divorced?
Can a Methodist go to a fish fry on Monday at the local bar?
Does your preacher/ priest have to wear a certain outfit?
It's it ok to wear your work cloths to church?
It's it a sin to let or services out early to beat the Baptist to the buffet?
If you wore a kilt to services what would happen?

And on and on and on. My final post here.

Those are interesting questions . I can answer a couple I believe .

Can a Baptist preacher be divorced?



Baptist preachers are selected by an appointed pulpit committee . They will preach a determined amount of services and the congregation will vote as a body to accept them or not .

If the preacher has been divorced it is harder to be instated unless he had tried hard to hold that marriage together and the break up is attributed to the wife . In which case he 'may' be eligible but can vary by different congregations .

Can a Methodist go to a fish fry on Monday at the local bar?

I believe a Methodist can attend a fish fry in a bar but would appreciate a correction if I'm wrong . As a Baptist I eat or attend many activities in places alcohol is available but that's not why I'm there . We live in a fallen world with many things happening around us we might not accept . Our Lord dealt with the same situation when he was with us .

Does your preacher/ priest have to wear a certain outfit?

It would depend on your church . Normally in a Baptist church there is no certain 'outfit' , usually coat and tie or just casual wear . But other churches have different traditions ...collars , robes and such .

It's it ok to wear your work cloths to church?

In my church you certainly may if you wish . I don't believe many churches would turn away anyone for wearing work clothes .

It's it a sin to let or services out early to beat the Baptist to the buffet?

Yes ! Because us Baptists should have at least an equal shot at the buffet ! (just personal opinion )

If you wore a kilt to services what would happen?

There would be unbelievable laughter and many questions plus I would never live it down .

[Scorpion8]

Are Catholics allowed by their beliefs to eat bacon ?

I better hope so, otherwise I'm in big, big doo-doo.

[jmort]

+ 1,000
no dietary restrictions
Old Covenent
New Covenant = Freedom from the law
Since you are the OP. I will not say this is trolling

[Boaz]

Thank you jmort , I don't troll . Haven't heard a Catholic complain yet ..it's just friendly talk . It's not theology ..I haven't quoted scripture or demeaned anyone . Atheists will try to make hay out of it one way or another and some Christians may be upset to discuss another's church for some personal reason but it's just friendly conversation . I enjoy discovering the commonalities in our shared faith in the one true living GOD .

[RPRNY]

No religious leaders except perhaps some backwoods tent-preachers now deny that Islam is a valid religion. As, indeed, Islam does for Christianity, holding it to be the mistaken worship of the second-last and second-greatest of the prophets. It is a better deal than you want to give them.

I always find it interesting when anti-Christian leftists defend Islam. It would seem impossible to reconcile the current fads of "liberalism" with a religion that continues to extoll, and execute in wide-spread practice, the oppression of women, the mutilation of teenage girls, the execution of homosexuals, and the murder of apostates, let alone the commission of terror against "'infidels" and those within Islam itself whose understanding of the tawheed is insufficiently rigorous, for example. Is it the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" thing? As an ideology at least as much opposed to the Hellenistic Judeo-Christian values of western civilization as your own, does that make its fundamental contradictions with basic human rights, violent opposition to feminism, and its pervasive homophobia somehow ok? The mental contortions required of the Left are exhausting. I can't stand Bill Mayer, but at least for a far left liberal, he recognizes, and voices, the incompatibility of Islam with his own ideology. A rare example of logic on the left...In any event, do tell.

[jmort]

"I enjoy discovering the commonalities in our shared faith in the one true living GOD ."

Me too, and you know that

[jmort]

"No religious leaders except perhaps some backwoods tent-preachers now deny that Islam is a valid religion."

Not true
you wrong
islam is scum, not a religion
the world would be a far better place if there were no muslims
this belongs in the pit, not due to the OP
But due to the participants

[Boaz]

"I enjoy discovering the commonalities in our shared faith in the one true living GOD ."

Me too, and you know that

I do know and I thank you .

[500Linebaughbuck]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....................bacon......... .......mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

yes we can