PHOTO OF THE DAY: ODD Lenten Muskrat
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ODD Lenten Muskrat
A muskrat swims in a pond near Buffalo, N.Y. Roman Catholics in the Detroit area get a reprieve from their obligation to abstain from eating meat on Fridays during Lent. But only to dine on a certain rodent. The Archdiocese of Detroit says a long-standing permission dating to the region’s missionary history in the 1700s allows local Catholics to eat muskrat “on days of abstinence, including Fridays of Lent.”