At our run-of-the-mill modern parish (we do have a good, young priest, but otherwise there is nothing especially traditional about it), about 20% of the women now wear chapel veils/mantillas.
We had a guest layman (a former Protestant) who is doing a parish mission speak during the announcements, and his wife was wearing one, too.
It seems like this trend is spreading, and it's gotta be driving the feminists nuts.
That trend is happening elsewhere too. A number of my female friends (all of us are in college) wear chapel veils. They're the *real* good Catholic girls.
"It seems like this trend is spreading, and it's gotta be driving the feminists nuts."
Not so sure. Tony Blair's wife wears one and she is heavily into women's rights. Quite puzzling.