They can. Catholicism has no “hard” restriction against drinking moderate amounts of alcohol, only against the excess. This is often justified through John 2:1-11, where Jesus transforms water into wine to animate a party. In fact some convents even brew their own wine or beer.
inb4 I’m not Catholic but raised in a Catholic household.
…it’s kind of weird I’m talking about this given my nickname, but oh well.Paul also instructs his disciple, Timothy, to essentially stop being a tea toataler and drink more wine.
Of course, up until the discovery of bacteria, alcohol was the way you ensured your beverages were safe to drink.
That’s a misconception. Most people in ancient and medieval times had reasonable access to clean water. They drank wine and beer because they wanted to get stoned.
Jesus was sooo cool, sucks that the lamest, antichristi-est assholes have culturally appropriated him to justify their endless und bottomless wickedness
Yet he never had anything bad to say about slavery
Do they need authorization?
Thats why I’m asking, I know nothing
What prompted the question though?
