Yeah, there are people like that amongst the traditionalist crowd. But I get the impression that she was exaggerating a bit. There are women who attend regularly at my Latin Mass parish who don't cover their head.
Journalists often do :-).
And I was offering only a single person's observation, with no intention of its being understood as a generalization. Every congregation is different in some ways, I'm sure.
I didn't find it until a week later, right where I'd looked before . . . and after I'd ordered a shoulder-length Spanish lace veil for my daughter and for myself (hers is white, mine steel-gray).
But nobody looked at us funny, not even the family of six behind us with the wife and all the little girls in beautiful lace veils . . . in fact, they seemed glad to see us!
And the service was nice -- it was LONG, but that was mostly because the Cathedral was jammed to the rafters and it took the celebrant and his altar boys nearly 40 minutes to administer Communion to everybody who wanted to receive. And before and after there were six priests hearing Confessions non-stop!
P.S. . . . I think kneelers are indicated at the altar rail, that was mighty hard marble! NEXT time, I am wearing my gardening kneepads under my dress!!!!!!
I can walk into any church, trad or N.O. and find kooky types. Same for Protestant churches. The point is every place has all kinds but the ones who stand out get labeled as the norm. I don’t believe all people who attend the N.O. are feminist, earth worshiping, guitar playing liberals. I could tell many stories of personal experience with some very lost people, but I know there are some good people who attend the N.O. as well and it’s not fair to put them in with the former crowd. Likewise it would be nice for people to acknowledge the majority of trads are just normal people who want to worship as we have for 2000 years and stop bashing us with a broad brush.
It would be nice to stick to theological issues rather than personal attacks (as fun as it is for some). Maybe I’m dreaming.