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Can a Latin rite priest wear the clerical attire of an eastern catholic priest without a lapse in cannon law
 
Neofight said:
Does it make a difference if one is speaking of liturgical vestments as opposed to other garments?
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Yeah, i lnow tge estments break canon law, but what about wa about the caseocks and headgear of eatern clergy, are they allowed
 
Why would he want to when there are beautiful traditional Latin rite garments to wear?
 
Your post is titled “cassocks.”

A Roman Catholic priest may wear a cassock if he likes to, unless his pastor says they aren’t allowed in his parish, or in his order if he is a religious. A cassock is not exclusively the property of one particular rite or another, at least in the past few centuries.

Why are you concerned?
 
When I clicked on this thread I thought it said “Cossacks.”

Never mind.
 
filius_Immacula said:
**Can a Latin rite priest wear **the clerical attire of an eastern catholic priest without a lapse in cannon law
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We Eastern Churches would have nothing to do with what a Latin Church priest may wear. It’s none of our business. 🙂

Better to post this in another part of the CAF, maybe “Liturgy and Sacraments”, or “Traditional Catholicism”.
 
There are several instances a Latin priest would wear Eastern “garb.” In the event he has faculties to celebrate an Eastern liturgy then he would be dressed as such. In the event he is concelebrating at an Eastern liturgy and there are no available Latin vestments, then yes. I’ve seen several liturgies in which a Latin priest visiting a Byzantine parish is vested in the dressed of a Byzantine priest. Conversely, I’ve seen Latin priests visiting a Maronite parish vested as Latins because there were Latin vestments available and they did not have Maronite faculties.

It’s a whole other question whether or not, despite being canonically permissible, it is proper - I assure you, you will never see a Coptic Orthodox priest dressed as a Syriac or a Syriac dressed as an Armenian or an Armenian dressed as an Ethiopian.
 
“The cassock” is indeed legal dress for a Latin cleric, and since there is no fixed form (you’ll often find suppliers distinguishing between “Roman” and “Jesuit” varieties, among others) one could I suppose shoehorn the Eastern styles in there as well. When it comes to headgear, on the other hand, while Latins don’t regulate anything in particular (saturnos, birettas, and fedoras all find their place at various moments), it would seem important to see if there are any restrictions from the Eastern side. That being said, it doesn’t seem prudent unless one is actually going native, so to speak, in an Eastern environment.
 
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