Actually I am Catholic and the "celebration" of Mardi Gras isn't universal to the Church. It is associated with Catholics in the south particularly Louisiana because of the French/Creole thing. Catholics begin the Easter season the week of Ash Wednesday (Mardi Gras, the day before Ash Wednesday, means fat Tuesday in French) it was celebrated as a last day of "pigging out" before the Lenten season when many observant Catholics would fast. But the modern impression of Mardi Gras has nothing to do with the Catholic church.
I am sorry to seem so anal but as a Black Catholic I am used to people criticizing and I saw this as one of those times that people might use to shake their heads at us "sad mis-directed black folk".
Sorry!
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