What Should I Do When Meat Is Being Served on a Friday during Lent?

Jimmy Akin explains Pope Paul VI's teaching on when breaking a penitential practice, such as abstinence from meat, constitutes a mortal sin, and what to do when we are in a social gathering where we may feel pressured to break that practice.

Jimmy Akin is an internationally known author and speaker. As the senior apologist at Catholic Answers, he has more than twenty years of experiencing defending and explaining the Faith.

Jimmy is a convert to the Faith and has an extensive background in the Bible, theology, the Church Fathers, philosophy, canon law, and liturgy.