Wow, this is a volatile subject!
What do you think?
Should women in the Latin Church wear some kind of head-cover in church?
Evidently, Fr. Z knows of a woman who was asked by her priest to NOT wear her chapel veil when coming to the ambo to read at Mass.
I ask fellow bloggers, liberal or conservative, traditional or progressivist, to help get the word out about this poll so we can have as large a sampling as possible.
In the Latin Church it was once obligatory under Canon Law for women to ear a head covering in Church (veil, scarf, or hat). At present it is not obligatory, but there seems to be a slow resurgence of this tradition. My opinion is that it should be revived.
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I think the woman referenced was showing the schizophrenia of the new church. If she’s going to follow Tradition in wearing a veil, what is she doing being a lector during the Mass? Women were not supposed to he heard in the church setting, nor were they supposed to be on the altar at anytime during the Mass. I wore a veil for about one year at our Novus Ordo parish. I was the only one in the entire church, ever, who did so. Frankly, I realized that it’s now the cultural norm to not wear a veil and that standing out in the congregation wasn’t serving a purpose other than looking “odd” and “attention seeking” to those who are puzzled by this weird, outdated behavior.
Why females have nerve to not cover their heads in church is beyond me, especially since 1 Cor. 11: 4-15 and Canon Law 1262 REQUIRE female heads to be covered in church. I don’t care if she wear a hat or a veil, any female entering a church should cover her head. I hope our clergy, from as low ranking as pastors to as high ranking as diocesan bishops start mandating this.
Father Z. is such a good priest, when I wrote to the Congregation for Bishops to recommend potential candidates for posts around the U.S. and Canada, I recommended Father Z., as well as Bishops Morlino of Madison and Gainer of Lexington to succeed the more heterodox John Vlazny as Archbishop of Portland.
For a female to enter a church with her head uncovered is the same a a male to enter a church with his head covered, and BOTH violate 1 Cor.11:4-15. However, I am happy to mention that I almost never see males covering their heads in churches(a rare exception was last Thursday when a fellow singer in my church’s choir walked in church with a hat on his head).
Telling a woman, and mandating at that, to not cover her head in church is like mandating a priest or nun to violate his/her celibacy vows. It’s also like telling people to show a lack of decorum in our churches, or be asked to leave. It’s high time our prelates mandated females cover their heads in churches!