- I wasn’t aware this was a game.
"Bzzzz. Wrong. Thanks for playing." is a colloquial idiom meaning, "You are incorrect." I wasn't playing a game.
- She’s not a nun, so stop trying to “play” that one.
I never said she was a nun, I said she was a "Sister." She is a hospital chaplain, so she is not "just like the rest of us." She is not ordained, so technically that does make her a lay person according the Church Doctrine. That's why her status as a religious is difficult to explain, especially to non-Catholics. She prefers the title Sister, but goes as "Chaplain" at work. Chaplain is a term understood by all of the believers and non-believers she visits.
Some people call her Reverend, but she doesn't really like them to, as she is not ordained. Many of the Protestants and non-Christians who she ministers to at the hospital don't understand the subtleties of Catholic hierarchy, however. She doesn't correct them, as it is her job to minister to their spiritual needs, not to school them in the Catechism.
She does not wear the head scarf at the hospital, but usually wears a scrubs hat (pictured below) which is a trick for following a head-covering practice in a hospital that she picked up from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish nurse.
- More power to her but if she’s covering her face, she’s suspect in my eyes and I don’t care what faith she claims she’s a part of.
I think I not only threw you with "Sister" but also with "hijab." This is a picture of various ways a Muslim woman can wear a hijab:
My wife wears her scarf in style #2. Again, it says, "I love Jesus" on it. In your previous post you disparaged "liberal" American Catholicism, and yet you criticize my wife for not following recent trends in dress. Make up your mind. Anyway, "retro" is the new "modern" so keep up!
I've never seen a female religious without her head covering when she was praying or performing other religious duties, so I don't see how my wife's "style" choice is at all unusual. Granted she doesn't have to keep it on when she leaves the church, but I didn't mention that she has Lupus and has to shield herself from the sun for health reasons.
Sometimes she does wear a "normal" ball cap for sun shielding purposes and no one gives her a hard time about it, but it's still nobody's business what she wears on her head.
Finally, I think we'd be a lot better off if Britney Spears and Paris Hilton would spend some time wearing tents in public rather than letting the world be their gynecologist, but at least I admit that's my own personal opinion.