Posted on 06/05/2019 6:29:54 PM PDT by marshmallow
A Catholic priest took to Twitter to ask women to dress modestly for church services to “protect the purity of the men”— and people online are not having it.
Father Kevin M. Cusick, an ordained Catholic priest and veteran, wrote a tweet addressed to “ladies,” writing that a fellow priest was “forced” to ask a woman at a Catholic mass to cover her shoulders. Cusick went on ask women to “please help the priest to protect the purity of men at holy Mass by choosing to dress modestly.”
Cusick added, “The alternative is awkward for all involved. Thank you.”
Ladies, a priest I know was forced on Sunday to ask a woman at Mass to cover her shoulders. Please help the priest to protect the purity of the men at holy Mass by choosing to dress modestly. The alternative is awkward for all involved. Thank you. — Fr. Kevin M. Cusick, LCDR (Ret.) ✝️ (@MCITLFrAphorism) June 3, 2019
The tweet faced almost immediate backlash, with both men and women arguing that women shouldn’t have to cover up their bodies to protect the sensibilities of their male counterparts while attending a church service.
“A woman's shoulders are not provocative. Women's bodies are not grenades, liable to explode at any moment,” replied Australian novelist Jane Caro, adding that this is why she “hates organized religion.”
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I’m guessing it was a sleeveless top which to me in Church is appropriate.
Oh Father,Rev.,and Rabbi,PLEASE make sure to it that during the summer months, your “AC” is in both working condition and operating order! Thank-you!
I have fallen for another she can make her own way home
And even if she asked me now I’d let her go alone
I useta see her up the chapel when she went to Sunday mass
And when she’d go to receive, I’d kneel down there
And watch her pass
The glory of her ass
I useta to love her, I useta love her once
A long, long time ago
I useta to love her, I useta love her once
A long long time ago
The Saw Doctors
Plenty of opportunities to do that like at the collection plate or just have children
The first Christians were having a dispute over whether they should eat meat that was formerly used in pagan sacrifices. Paul thought it was okay. Others were concerned about it. Paul's response?
1Co_8:13 Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.
Same thing with clothes...if our clothes make someone stumble then change our clothes. It's a matter of putting others first in all areas.
How bout that Paul.
I know this was a big bugaboo for my former pastor before he retired. He said he’d do double-takes on the altar, not believing that he was actually looking out and seeing all that cleavage.
He actually put a sarcastic piece in our bulletin denying the rumors that a swimming pool was being constructed in the church basement, so you can all quit coming to Mass in your bathing suits.
I think the whole thing started because of a lack of “ac’s” in the summer months, plus of the attitude that in the summer, everything becomes a bit informal.
When it is 110 to 122 degrees mid day, the dress standards adapt to health and safety.
The has to be a comedy skit somewhere about a pastor/priest dropping a communion wafer into a woman’s cleavage and trying to retrieve it without causing a scene. Sounds like something Benny Hill would do.
I think it might have been a Father Ted episode!
You have no way of ascertaining whether this shoulder-revealer at mass is dressing to be sexy, to stay cool, to entice men, or out of pure ignorance.
Neither does the man. There’s an condemnatory tone to saying he was “forced” to ask her to cover up.
How does this man cope with women at work, a colleague or customer, in a meeting, the cashier at the grocery or bank, the barista, etc?
Does he ask all these to cover their shoulders or decollete? He knows he would be shamed, rideiculed, slapped or possibly arrested.
But at Mass he can exert his power, and act superior and humiliate someone. This with support of priest who is cowardly to state his case on twitter.
Both of them are targeting a woman who is caught by their double attack in name of modesty. Let them try twittering about the 6’ tall construction worker attending mass in dirty jeans and a muscle shirt.
The man should keep his fantasies and prurient interest to himself. He takes an intrusive and belittling stance instead of the simple, obvious choice to change his seat. But perhaps he is reluctant to walk over to another pew because he has a hard-on. Classic.
Not buying it.
Women know what they are doing in how they dress. They DO know.
No, the Catholic Church does not have any official or written dress code. That is laughable.
You may be thinking of the old “rule of 3.” Female modesty in dress: the neckline must be no lower than 3 inches below the collar bone, and the hem of dress should fall 3 inches below the knee!
1262.2 Men, in a church or outside a church, while they are assisting at sacred rites, shall be bare-headed, unless the approved mores of the people or peculiar circumstances of things determine otherwise; women, however, shall have a covered head and be modestly dressed, especially when they approach the table of the Lord.
Of course the post Vatican II, JPII 1983 Code of Canon Law abrogated this Church Law.
Where did you learn this? I don't see this in the OP.
You still have to be “properly disposed” to receive Holy Communion. I don’t think immodest dress is consistent with a proper disposition to receive. As I said, modest dress was still being enforced a decade or so ago in Rome, not only in churches but at the Coliseum, which is considered a holy shrine of countless martyrs.
You have no argument from me. I was just offering the fact that modest dress was indeed (Universal) Church Law.
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