Metro Detroit

More than 1,600 have died of COVID-19 in the U.S. so far.

A long-standing permission by the Archdiocese of Detroit allows local Catholics to eat muskrat — a furry, marsh-dwelling rodent native to the area — “on days of abstinence, including Fridays of Lent.”

The city's cultural institutions are still reckoning with that summer, half a century later.

The ACLU said the move “may very well have saved numerous people from abuse and possible death."