Catechism of the Catholic Church §582 — excerpt
Going even further, Jesus perfects the dietary law, so important in Jewish daily life, by revealing its pedagogical meaning through a divine interpretation: "Whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him.
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Whole chapters cited: Numbers 28
