Appropriate attire?

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Sisters should be wearing habits.

I would say it’s not appropriate.
 
No one is “confused”. OP, this is the same topic you brought up before. It doesn’t matter that it’s a different sister or a different order or a different incident.

OP, it’s pretty clear you see yourself as the Modesty Police and when people, regardless of whether they are in religious orders or elsewhere, don’t agree with your views, you make some post looking for others to agree with your views basically.

Once again, you’ve done all you can do in this most recent situation and you need to now let it go because frankly, beyond sending the notice to the photo poster and the superior of the religious person, you can do nothing more about it and it has ceased to be your business in any way.
 
Orders vary.

I know sisters who must wear their full habits on home visits and those who can head to the beach in a bikini. Ironically, the sisters who wear full habits are encouraged to post on social media, while the ones who are allowed to dress as they feel are forbidden from it.

You have made your stance very clear without actually knowing the details and this woman blocked you. Then you contacted her order. You need to stop before she slaps a harrasment suit on you.
 
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And then of course whether they wear a habit depends on the order
There is an order here that wears a habit and one that does not.
 
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As Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount:
1“Judge not, that you be not judged. 2For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. 3Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
 
Most sisters in the US don’t wear habits. They discerned extensively and prayerfully about this, and you have no right or authority to pronounce categorically on what anyone “should” or “should not” wear. Unless you are a sister, you do not have a say in this matter–and, if you are, then you only have a say in terms of what your community does.

Oh, and I promise not to tell you what to wear, either.
 
When it comes to modesty in our society, even within some religious communities, hearts are very hard, and preaching or words will not sway their opinion. The biggest problem, morally speaking, with correcting someone in this situation, is that you possess no moral authority over her, and it is considered sinful even in the older moral theology books because it is often not modest in speech and always a breach of decorum, which is virtue that is a subset of modesty.

St. Francis said, “Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.” In my own life, I do this by being rather particular about heeding to modesty, and most people would call us “very strict”. However, the only ones that I ever correct in this regard are my children and those Godchildren whose parents want us to have a more active role in their moral upbringing. Do what you ought to be doing and mind your own soul.

I never “like” or post anything on any FB pictures that are immodest because I know that ends up on more and more threads, and I am subjecting my modest friends to them. I’m sure that my sister doesn’t like my ignoring her daughter’s Christmas dance pictures, but I’m not going to perpetuate the problem by helping it to travel around the globe.
 
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In reference to post #2 by Rose

I very politely PM-ed the sister about what Roseurekacross said and she blocked me on FB
I bought the same to the attention of their community and they just said a Thank You to me
The photo remained there
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How can I say this politely?

Mind your own business.

I can’t believe you put so much time and energy into policing other people’s social media.

Attend to your own spiritual health and rest assured that others are quite able to attend to theirs.
 
Short answer: yes. Or perhaps more accurately, there’s nothing inherently inappropriate about it.

Most importantly, it’s definitely not up to you to determine.
 
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Knee length shorts are modest. A whole lot better than seeing grown men on the beach in thongs. Peace.
 
Fact:
when I post a prayer intention I normally get 4-5 replies in a day. Within 4-5 hours I have got around 25 replies for this post
 
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Fact:
when I post a prayer intention I normally get 4-5 replies in a day. Within 4-5 hours I have got around 25 replies for this post
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Nothing needs to be said on a prayer post. In fact on many other forums no responses to prayer threads are permitted. Many people read, pray and move on. I for one, HATE reading lines of formatted prayers. Some people like it…so to each their own.

Here, quite a bit needed to be said–by many. No one had yet posted that each order allows different things on home visits when I said it, nor had anyone yet warned you about harrasment (atleast on this thread)
 
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It’s a shame that most nuns don’t wear habits.

The reason I believe that nuns should wear habits is because they become consecrated to God. They no longer are supposed to be concerned with worldly things, but of Godly things.

When nuns wear pant suits, it just seems like they still have attachments to worldly things.
 
Or maybe they don’t feel like dying in a heavy, confining habit in the summer when the temps can hit the high 90’s or more. Peace
 
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