Turkey is an Islamic country where the vast majority of women are not veiled, but then again they are often forced to not wear it. Also, Catholic women until recently used to wear a veil when they went to Mass.
Catholic women until recently used to wear a veil when they went to Mass. I'm not Catholic, but I went to a Latin Mass here in New York last weekend. It was stunningly beautiful, and many of the women did wear veils.
I suppose the Modernists here would have been "enraged" at the oppression.
Yes, but in a Catholic Church it has a very different connotation. The veil does not wrap the head or cover women's faces. It is spiritually symbolic and other religious traditions do similar things (think Jews, Hindus, Sikhs). They are not meant to be repressive, demeaning, or subjugating.
The Muslim hijab is a far, far different thing.