text: Phyllis Zagano should bone up on the difference between a day of fast and a day of abstinence before criticizing John Shields's chicken dinners on Friday nights back in the 1960's.  And check her calendar as well. 
  After Pope Paul VI's Apostolic Constitution of 1966, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops relaxed the prior obligation of abstinence (not fasting) on most Fridays of the year.  That relaxation covers the years of John Shields's chicken dinners as a young cleric.