Why did the Pope classify the capybara as a fish?

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During the Christian celebration of Lent, capybara meat is especially popular as it is claimed that the Catholic church, in a special dispensation, classified the animal as a fish in the 16th century. There are differing accounts of how the dispensation arose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capybara
 
>>Why did the Pope classify the capybara as a fish?<<

He didn't. He allowed it to be eaten, using his power to bind and loose.

“And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." (Matthew 16:18-19)
 
Because somebody felt that the capybara is a missing evolutionary link between fish and mammals.

But the Catholics randomly support evolution in the strangest of times.
 
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