After reading the many responses I have to think that the dropping of head coverings is a American phenomenon. When I was in Europe two years ago it seemed common, in pictures I’ve seen of places like China and Poland it seems common.
I think it’s an American thing, you’ll often see immigrant women with head coverings, (Orthodox Churches as well), while Americanized women won’t personal.
I know my girlfriend likes wearing the veil when we go the the TLM, but it just doesn’t seem to “fit” in the modern Liturgy.
I also have to wonder if the intent of the secondary issue in this article - seperating men and women was designed to be focused on unmarried men and women for the purpose of modesty given that Theologically (Catholic Theology at least) you become one at the point of marriage and therefore it would only seem proper that they be together in Church.
Perhaps you could find an article on that issue.
I disagree. In the mid 1960s we all wore hats, or mantillas, or doilies to church. A woman joined our parish and dared to come to church hatless and sat right up front where all could see her to the shock of most of the other parishioners.
For a couple of weeks people whispered about it, butthen we were told that she was from Holland (wife of a grad student at Berkeley), and the Dutch had long since given up wearing hats to church. Something about it being an outgrowth of the war and the cost of hats.
We continued wearing them and she continued going hatless, but by 1970 most everyone stopped wearing hats (except me). Only once did I hear anything from the pulpit. The priest asked, "Did I miss the announcement banning hats in church?" But no one paid any attention.
Then we moved to Texas and my husband gave all my hats away (I had gone ahead to enroll the children in school). That pretty much limited my hat wearing for a few years, and when I resumed it was just for Palm Sunday and the Easter Season.
For the last few years I have been alone at Mass wearing a hat, except for a few children in their Easter dresses. I didn't bother this year at all, and no one else did either. LOL. But I WON'T wear flip flops and jeans to church! I don't care how many do.