noted the Detroit Catholic. Small aquatic seabirds that are most definitely not reptiles or fish, puffins were actually ...

Lent is the time before Easter during which ... it is important that the Catholic would speak with a priest or spiritual director. Any act of penance that would seriously hinder one's health ...

So the more meat you ate and the more spices you used, the higher you were up the food chain, as it were. The first pages of Postny obiad albo zabaweczka or Lenten Lunch or a Trifle, published in 1653 ...