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From: features@ihuxf.UUCP (M.A. Zeszutko)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Dressing for Church
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Date: Wed, 26-Sep-84 20:30:16 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 26 20:30:16 1984
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I'm surprised that no one brought up the old Roman Catholic tradition
of women having to have their heads covered at all times while in
church.  It seems ludicrous now to think we would bobby-pin kleenex
to our hair if we wanted to stop in church on our way home from school.
Abdnd heaven forbid girls should show up in pants (!) or sleeveless dresses
or patent leather shoes (really).  Even if we were just playing in the
neighborhood, it was not looked upon kindly if a girl would stop in
if she was not dressed in a dress.

Much of that has changed (I think the hierarchy is grateful people are
showing up, with or without head coverings!), but there's still
a great deal of work to be done to make people comfortable as part of
the Body of Christ.

(I'd start by saying "particularly women", but then this would have to
go to net.flame.)

From the parochial childhood of
Mary Ann Zeszutko
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