Are protestant pastors allowed to wear Catholic vestments?

[choliks]

Yesterday, I attended my BIL’s Baptist wedding. The presiding minister wore a stole that was identical to a Catholic priest’s (if it’s not an actual) vestment. It was green and had an embroidery.

Are protestant pastors allowed to wear Catholic vestments?

 

[jmcrae]

Yesterday, I attended my BIL’s Baptist wedding. The presiding minister wore a stole that was identical to a Catholic priest’s (if it’s not an actual) vestment. It was green and had an embroidery.

Are protestant pastors allowed to wear Catholic vestments?

The Catholic Church doesn’t actually own any kind of copyright or patent on clerical vestments.

We have our own rules within our Church about who can wear what, but outside our Church, people can and do wear whatever they want, including the same kind of clothes that Catholic members of clergy wear.

(The first time I ever attended a Catholic Mass, I was wondering why a man was wearing what in our church was reserved for female members of clergy - a green stole. )

 

[jonbhorton]

Though they may have the appearance of a Priest, if they’re not Catholic, they’re a public speaker as far as I’m concerned. A public speaker who looks like a Catholic, but isn’t.

They’re willfully out of communion with Rome, why would they care about what the Catholic Church allows on simple clothing when they utterly reject all authority of Rome?

 

[hn160]

Though they may have the appearance of a Priest, if they’re not Catholic, they’re a public speaker as far as I’m concerned. A public speaker who looks like a Catholic, but isn’t.

They’re willfully out of communion with Rome, why would they care about what the Catholic Church allows on simple clothing when they utterly reject all authority of Rome?

Give me a break, Lutheran pastors are very much a pastor as are RC priests. It is the Roman Catholic Church that is out of communion with the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.

 

[CatholicTimmy]

It is the Roman Catholic Church that is out of communion with the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.

Last I checked, Lutherans broke away from the Catholic Church, not the other way around.

 

[pamnbam]

Though they may have the appearance of a Priest, if they’re not Catholic, they’re a public speaker as far as I’m concerned. A public speaker who looks like a Catholic, but isn’t.

They’re willfully out of communion with Rome, why would they care about what the Catholic Church allows on simple clothing when they utterly reject all authority of Rome?

Very well said! :clapping:

 

[Matrix_Refugee]

Maybe it’s a sign that they’re at least attracted to the trappings of Catholicism, if not the actual Church… Might mean that they sub-consciously want to be in accord with Rome, but their conscious mind, through prejudice or what have you, is fighting the call…

 

[Monte_RCMS]

I just started a bible study course and in Exodus Chapter 28, God tells how He wants the Priestly Vestments to be made.

 

[PRmerger]

I first interpreted the question to mean, “Can a Protestant minister, who happens to be presiding in a Catholic church (say, at the wedding of his niece), along with a Catholic priest wear the vestments that the priest wears?”

And my initial reaction was, “No! That doesn’t sound right. But I’d like to see what the official ruling is on this…”

However, upon reading jmcrae’s response, that makes sense. What Protestant pastors wear in their own churches is, well, up to them.

But if they’re going to come to **our **church, then, no, they can’t wear our priest’s vestments. At least, that’s my thoughts. Don’t know what the official rule is on this.

 

[Monte_RCMS]

[maybe the protestant pastor is studying to become catholic!]

 

[KathleenGee]

I know of a priest of a religious institute…and wondered what was going on…at the gathering, the priests, brothers and women religious all wore lay clothing…then the lay came in…processed in rather…wearing their long habits…

Now seculars can only wear their habits in their casket.

Another priest, a pastor also wondered what was going on about the same time…this in the 1980’s with all the lousy and heretical or just empty catechetics floating around…he noticed the priests letting go of their Roman collars but the Protestant ministers now starting to wear them…they got them from somewhere without a RC ID.

 

[jonbhorton]

Give me a break, Lutheran pastors are very much a pastor as are RC priests.

Keep eating at the feedlot if you want, I’m sticking with the original agrarian model of cool waters and green grass to which Catholic priests have the authority to lead me.

It is the Roman Catholic Church that is out of communion with the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.

You’re totally correct. I just checked the Gospel and Oh-My-My! :

13 And Jesus came into the quarters of Caesarea Philippi: and he asked his disciples, saying: Whom do men say that the Son of man is? 14 But they said: Some John the Baptist, and other some Elias, and others Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. 15 Jesus says to them: But whom do you say that I am? 16** C. F. W. Walther-Peter**

 

[jonbhorton]

I just started a bible study course and in Exodus Chapter 28, God tells how He wants the Priestly Vestments to be made.

For the Temple priests of the Old Covenant…

 

[KathleenGee]

I think, that when it comes to liturgy, we draw on divine inspiration from God Himself and the Holy Spirit in how He’d like to be worshipped, how He’d wish His clerics to be vested as set aside by God for serving the faithful, and what is pleasing to Him.

Exodus does point that out very clearly that God seeks divine worship, not man made…just as the new liturgy is based on the Memorial, the Last Supper.

 

[Omar_Gatskill]

Yesterday, I attended my BIL’s Baptist wedding. The presiding minister wore a stole that was identical to a Catholic priest’s (if it’s not an actual) vestment. It was green and had an embroidery.

Are protestant pastors allowed to wear Catholic vestments?

That’s kind of an odd question. My priest wears vestments every Sunday, but they are being worn by an Anglican priest. That’s not to say that those same exact vestments couldn’t be worn by a Catholic priest. For all intensive purposes, they are both very similar to one another in appearance if not exactly the same in some instances.

 

[hn160]

Last I checked, Lutherans broke away from the Catholic Church, not the other way around.

It all depends how you look at it. anyway this is how I see it:
The Lutheran Church differs from all other churches in being essentially the Church of the pure Word and unadulterated Sacraments. Not the great number of her adherents, not her organizations, not her charitable and other institutions, not her beautiful customs and liturgical forms, etc., but the precious truths confessed in her symbols in perfect agreement with the Holy Scriptures constitute the true beauty and rich treasures of our Church, as well as the never-failing source of her vitality and power.

Bente, F.; Dau, W.H.T. (2010-01-31). The Book of Concord - Concordia Triglotta Edition (

 

[ConstantineTG]

I first interpreted the question to mean, “Can a Protestant minister, who happens to be presiding in a Catholic church (say, at the wedding of his niece), along with a Catholic priest wear the vestments that the priest wears?”

And my initial reaction was, “No! That doesn’t sound right. But I’d like to see what the official ruling is on this…”

However, upon reading jmcrae’s response, that makes sense. What Protestant pastors wear in their own churches is, well, up to them.

But if they’re going to come to **our **church, then, no, they can’t wear our priest’s vestments. At least, that’s my thoughts. Don’t know what the official rule is on this.

Depends on what you mean by “our vestments”. They can certainly go into a Catholic supply store and buy vestments and wear them and call it their own vestments. And if there is an ecumenical prayer or event in a Catholic parish, they can surely come in wearing those. As jmcrae said, the Catholic Church has no patent or trademark or whatever on those vestments, so any other group can wear them and call them their own. Of course we can object if they’re doing it just for that event, but if they really wear the same or similar vestments for every service they have, then what can we do to object?