text: Paprocki is a bishop in the Catholic Church whose pope, bishops and priests should all be singing from the same hymn sheet, alas, they don't. Most bishops, especially in the West, pay lip-service to Catholic teaching and practice but won't teach or impose it.
  Eating meat on a Friday was/is  a Precept of the Church so could/can be imposed or remitted by the Church. The Moral Law is the Law of God which no one can change. You are confusing them.
  Again the word catholic means universal not American. The Catholic Church in the US is but a small fraction of the worldwide Catholic Church and if the polls are anything to go by displays not the sensus fidelium but rather the 'sensus infidelium.